| EDWINLUTYENS | Architect who designed the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme |
| ELIDE | Novel idea reveals missing of a vowel |
| MENINGATE | The Memorial to the Missing in Ypres, Belgium |
| UNEARTH | Dig up from plateau near Thiepval |
| CUTTY | - Sark; preserved in Greenwich as a memorial to the Merchant Navy and monument to the age of sail, the last surviving tea clipper, once the fastest ship of her time (5) |
| EISENMAN | Peter ******** , architect noted for Berlin's Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (8) |
| HAIG | Commander-in-chief during the Battle of the Somme who co-founded the Royal British Legion (4) |
| HAM | Town of the Somme department of France - Joan of Arc and the future Napoleon III were two notable detainees in its fortress (3) |
| TOMB | Poignant memorial to the war dead, the ... of the unknown soldier |
| UNKNOWN | Poignant memorial to the war-dead, the tomb of the ... soldier |
| AAMILNE | Author injured in the Battle of the Somme |
| HAILING | Nothing revolutionary in the Butcher of the Somme coming down hard (7) |
| DOUGLASHAIG | Scotsman, commander during the Battle of the Somme (7,4) |
| FIRSTWORLDWAR | Conflict that included the Battle of the Somme in 1916 (5,5,3) |
| AMIENS | French city that is the capital of the Somme department in Picardy |
| PANTHEON | Heavily criticise article about memorial to the dead? (8) |
| DOWNTHEPIPE | How a perfect pitch comes ... or a hint to the missing parts of the circled answers |
| EPEHY | Village of the Somme, recaptured from the Germans by British forces on 18 September 1918, a small-scale but morale boosting victory |
| VERDUN | The Douaumont Ossuary is a memorial to the fallen of this WWI battle (6) |
| CENOTAPH | Memorial to the dead (8) |
