| DOVISH | Against the war |
| THEWHITE | ___ Queen historical drama series set against the War of the Roses and whose protagonist is Elizabeth Woodville: 2 wds. |
| CAMPUSPROTEST | Demonstration against the war in Gaza held at many universities in 2024 |
| SEVENYEARSWAR | Which conflict is also known as the Silesian War, the War of the Conquest and the Third Carnatic War |
| WELLS | One of the UK's smallest cities; or, the author of The Time Machine, The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds (5) |
| WORLDS | The realism of Orson Welles' radio version of HG Wells' The War Of The ..., the story of a Martian i |
| MARENGO | Name of a battle during the War of the Second Coalition commemorated in the painting Napoleon Crossing the Alps by Jacques-Louis David (7) |
| LANCASTER | The red rose house in the War of the Roses, it finally triumphed over York at the Battle of Bosworth |
| RECIPROCAL | Turns up, the foreign army unit isn't finished getting diamonds at the end of the war - and the feeling is mutual (10) |
| HOAX | The 1938 broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" was one |
| WAYNE | Jeff ---, composer of the TV-am theme tune as well as a musical version of The War Of The Worlds (5) |
| UTRECHT | The Treaty of ... in 1713 ended the War of the Spanish Succession (7) |
| HGWELLS | English novelist who wrote some of the earliest science fiction novels, such as The War of the Worlds. (1,1,5) |
| ROSES | The Houses of Lancaster and York fought the War of the ___. (5) |
| OUDENARDE | Battle of ?, July 1708 conflict in the War of the Spanish Succession that resulted in victory for the Allies over France (9) |
| PRIAM | Who was king of Troy during the war against the Greeks? (5) |
| TAN | The War of Independence is sometimes called the ___ War. (3) |
| ORSON | First name of the actor and director remembered for Citizen Kane and his radio dramatisation of The War of the Worlds (5) |
| TOMB | Poignant memorial to the war dead, the ... of the unknown soldier |
| UNKNOWN | Poignant memorial to the war-dead, the tomb of the ... soldier |
