| PLATAEA | A defeat of the Persian army by the Greeks in 479 BC. |
| CATPERSON | One in charge of a Persian army, perhaps? |
| IONIA | Ancient region of Asia Minor, colonised by the Greeks in around 1100 BC (5) |
| ELOBEID | City in the central Sudan that was scene of the defeat of a British and Egyptian army by the Mahdi in 1883 (2,5) |
| TROJANS | Defeated by the Greeks in a legendary war (7) |
| DISCI | Objects thrown by the Greeks in the ancient Olympic Games |
| TROY | City besieged by the Greeks in the Iliad (4) |
| ACHILLES | He was the son of Peleus and Thetis and chief hero of the Greeks in the Trojan War. In Troilus and Cressida (act 1, scene 2), Cressida says, "There among the Greeks ___, a better man than Troilus." |
| AGAMEMNON | In Greek mythology, the brother of Menelaus and king of Mycenae, who led the Greeks in the Trojan War (9) |
| NESTOR | King of Pylos who was the oldest of the Greeks in the Trojan War (6) |
| SEDGEMOOR | A low-lying plain in Central Somerset, scene of the defeat of the Duke of Monmouth in 1685 (9) |
| MYCALE | Battle of 479 BC, a turning point in the wars between Greek city-states and Persia (6) |
| GIDEON | Leader in a defeat of Midianite raiders in the book of Judges |
| BRIAN | King of Ireland killed during the defeat of the Danes at the battle of Clontarf in 1014 (5,4) |
| BORU | King of Ireland killed during the defeat of the Danes at the battle of Clontarf in 1014 (5,4) |
| CONFUCIUS | Chinese moral philosopher (551-479 BC) whose ideas were posthumously collected in the Analects (9) |
| FROBISHER | Sir Martin, the maritime explorer who played a major role in the defeat of the Spanish Armada (9) |
| ELIZABETHI | Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn's daughter whose reign as the last Tudor monarch saw the defeat of the Spanish Armada and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (9,1) |
| HASTINGS | William the Conqueror's defeat of the Saxons in 1066 (8) |
| SILK | From a name given by the Greeks and Romans to inhabitants of distant lands, word for cloth/fibre produced in sericulture; or, a garment, such as a KC's gown, made from this (4) |
