Possible Clues:

• Almost look up to a liberal officer
• Officer's commercial station in space above male prison
• One's at sea, but red in the air
• Benbow, say, like Crichton lacking breadth and energy
• It's not in Fleet Street that's he's in charge
• Rodney, perhaps, might mean very well by dropping out
• Dim possibilities in vanishing sea, for him?
• Flag rank
• These days star learner is a butterfly
• Four-star figure