| RAFFERTY | Actor who starred in the war movie The Rats Of Tobruk, Chips ... |
| LONGESTDAY | Tag Ed on the sly in the war movie... (3,7,3) |
| THE | Tag Ed on the sly in the war movie... (3,7,3) |
| RAYLIOTTA | Frank Sinatra portrayer in 1998 TV movie "The Rat Pack": 2 wds. |
| MARKTWAINAWARD | "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" won it in 1973 |
| MRS | Newbery Medal book "___ Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" |
| NIMH | "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of ___" (classic Robert C. O'Brien children's book) |
| OBRIEN | "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" author Robert C. ___ |
| RATS | Chips Rafferty movie, The ... Of Tobruk |
| THEDESERTRATS | 1953 film, starring Richard Burton and James Mason, about the siege of Tobruk during World War ll (3,6,4) |
| DESERTRATS | Abandon traitors to the WWII heroes of Tobruk (6,4) |
| TREK | Footslog bringing soldiers into outskirts of Tobruk |
| WESER | The river in which the rats were drowned by the Pied Piper of Hamelin (5) |
| STARVE | One way to deprive rats of food - slice them up against end of knife (6) |
| DEER | Vietnam War movie, "The - Hunter" |
| PATRIOT | Mel Gibson war movie, The... |
| LOCKER | 2009 Iraq War movie, The Hurt - - - (6) |
| MURID | Any rodent of the largest family of rodents (and of mammals), including the rats, mice, voles etc. (5) |
| STANDTO | Parts of Belfast and Tobruk obeyed military order (5,2) |
| PARASITES | Spies a rat of some kind among the hangers-on (9) |
