| FINESTHOUR | "This was their ___ ___": final two words of a speech delivered by Winston Churchill on June 18, 1940 (6,4) |
| AEROPLANES | "On all sides they are guarded by masses of armed men, cannons, ____, fortifications, and the like" (Winston Churchill, on dictators) |
| FINEST | "This was their ___ hour" (Churchill) |
| CANTI | Final two words of "Over the Rainbow" |
| SERMON | What is a speech delivered from a pulpit called? (6) |
| ADDRESS | A speech delivered in 10 Downing Street? |
| FOUR | Alluded to in a famous speech delivered by Sir Winston Churchill in 1940, a 24th part of a day (4) |
| VICTORY | Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar; or, a word quoted several times by Winston Churchill in a speech (7) |
| JAWJAWNOTWARWAR | Paraphrase of a line in a speech in 1954 by Winston Churchill (3-3,3,3-3) |
| FLAT | Shoe with a low heel or no heel; type of toy soldier, such as any one of those collected by Winston Churchill; a punctured tyre; or, an apartment (4) |
| PREPOSITION | Part of speech delivered by agent plugging point of view |
| EPILOGUE | What is the speech delivered by an actor at the conclusion of the play? (8) |
| ALEC | Dancer ___ Mazo, whose wife Edyta Sliwinska had a baby on June 18 |
| WILLIEMAYS | Baseball legend nicknamed the "Say Hey Kid," who died at age 93 on June 18, 2024 |
| MONOLOGUE | A long speech delivered by one person (9) |
| ANNOUNCE | Publicise one part of speech delivered by Anglican (8) |
| ITWAS | First two words of "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| BLACKDOG | Name, during Queen Anne's reign, for a bad shilling; or, a metaphor, popularised by Winston Churchill, for depression or melancholy (5,3) |
| IROCK | Boast formed by removing the middle two words of a popular Paul Simon song title |
| HOUR | "This was their finest ___" - Winston Churchill, 1940 (4) |