| TRIPOLIHARBOR | North African coastal area that served as a naval battleground during the First Barbary War (Hawaii) |
| TUNIS | North African coastal capital city |
| STATEOFWAR | Two strafe a battleground during hostilities (5,2,3) |
| YPRES | Belgian battleground during W.W. I |
| ALGERIA | Land in the Barbary Wars |
| TRIPOLI | Barbary Wars participant |
| FORTMACKINAC | Old military outpost that served as a battle site during the War of 1812 (Michigan) |
| MIR | The name of the Soviet/Russian modular space station that served as a versatile space laboratory for more than 14 years, starting in 1986, before ground controllers forced it down into the Pacific Oce |
| DUPIN | Edgar Allan Poe's fictional detective that served as a prototype for a genre of investigators, C Aug |
| GLEBE | From Latin for "clod", a plot of land attached to a parish church that served as part of a clergyman's benefice; or, a poetic word for fields or the soil (5) |
| AGORA | Open square that served as a meeting place or market in an ancient Greek city |
| OVALTINE | Chocolate malt drink mix that served as a bit for Bania's stand-up comedy act in "Seinfeld" |
| UTAH | State that served as a filming location for "Touched by an Angel" |
| STORM | A tempest accompanied by a gale of force 10, according to the grading of wind speeds devised by Sir Francis Beaufort during his time as a naval hydrographer (5) |
| SENEGAL | A West African coastal country that is also known as the "Gateway to Africa." |
| STORMONT | Belfast castle that served as the official residence of the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland from 1921 to 1972 (8) |
| AGRA | City of northern India that served as capital of the Mughal empire under such leaders as Shah Jahan (4) |
| DANVILLE | City in Virginia that served as the final capital of the Confederacy in 1865 (8) |
| STEPHENS | St -, ancient chapel in the old Palace of Westminster that served as the House of Commons (8) |
| SALYUT | The name for any of a series of Soviet space stations (of two designs), launched between 1971 and 1982, that served as living quarters and scientific laboratories or military reconnaissance platforms. |
