| SPION | & 12D The Battle of -, conflict in January 1900 between Boer and British forces in the Second Boer War (5,3) |
| SPIONKOP | The Battle of ?, conflict in January 1900 between Boer and British forces in the Second Boer War |
| TOWTON | Battle of -, conflict in the Wars of the Roses fought on Palm Sunday, 1461 in North Yorkshire (6) |
| VIMYRIDGE | Battle of -, conflict in April, 1917 that saw a decisive Allied victory in World War I (4,5) |
| CRICKET | Sport which featured at the Olympics only once, with a solitary game in 1900 between Great Britain and France (the former won the gold) |
| KITCHENER | Field marshal who in 1900 became overall commander of the British forces in the Second Boer War (9) |
| MARLBOROUGH | The Duke of --was commander of British forces in the War of the Spanish Succession (11) |
| MAHIKENG | Provincial capital in South Africa (pop about 50,00), the site of a 217-day siege in the Second Boer War (8) |
| COLENSO | Town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; scene of a December 1899 battle in the Second Boer War |
| KRUGERRAND | Gold coin featuring the likeness of the statesman whose actions were one cause of the Second Boer War |
| HAIG | Douglas ---, commander in chief of the British forces in France during most of the First World War (4) |
| DOUGLASHAIG | British field marshal; commander-in-chief of the British forces in France and Flanders (1915-18) |
| LADYSMITH | South African city in KwaZulu-Natal subjected to a four-month siege by Boer forces during the Second Boer War (1899-1902) (9) |
| MAFEKING | Town in South Africa where British troops and civilians were besieged for 217 days during the Second Boer War (8) |
| STANSTED | London airfield that was originally built by and for the US forces in the Second World War (8) |
| BELGRANO | General ____ , Argentine navy ship sunk by British forces in the Falklands War of 1982 (8) |
| WHITE | & 9A Battle of -, conflict of November 1620 near Prague in the Thirty Years' War (5,8) |
| BLACK | & 12D The -, Robert Louis Stevenson novel subtitled A Tale of the Two Roses (5,5) |
| DOODLEBUG | Nickname for the jet- propelled V-1 missile used by German forces in the Second World War, also known as the flying bomb (9) |
| BADAJOZ | City in Extremadura, captured by British forces in the Peninsular War |
