| HIGHTAILIT | Battle and lose, losing the same lead in strike, and flee |
| UGLYBETTY | Sitcom that starred the same lead actress as 19-across |
| EFFLORESCE | Break forth and flee forces in disarray (10) |
| EISENSTEIN | Sergei, director of the films Strike and Ivan The Terrible Part | (10) |
| ENOBARBUS | In Antony and Cleopatra, after a humiliating defeat in battle and feeling he failed Anthony as a good soldier, he takes his own life. Who is this? |
| NUREYEV | See attention and flee to the West? This dancer did |
| HENRYI | King who claimed Normandy as English territory after beating his brother in battle and imprisoning him in 1106 |
| ENGAGE | Meet in battle and swear to marry? (6) |
| DIEAWAY | Meet one's end in foreign battle, and descend into silence |
| LITTERBASKET | Battle and strike about where rubbish is deposited |
| RESIST | Battle and persist without leader in conflict (6) |
| NATIONALDEBT | Britain's outstanding figure perhaps beaten in battle, and inspiring love (8,4) |
| DOLOMITES | Old battles and old scraps in the mountains (9) |
| ASYOU | Shakespeare play in which Rosalind disguises herself as a man and flees to the Forest of Arden, ... |
| DEFLECT | Turn key and flee badly organised court (7) |
| STEERINGWHEEL | Means to turn and flee when tigers head off crazily |
| ELOPES | The Spanish father in Rome loses the head leading strike and, for Union reasons, splits with girlfriend (6) |
| HOLLIDAY | Star of the TV series Strike and The Capture, -------- Grainger (8) |
| BEDOFROSES | "For marriage is like life in this - that it is a field of battle, and not a ___ _ ___": Robert Louis Stevenson (3,2,5) |
| YPRES | Belgian (Flanders) municipality, the site of a major WWI battle - and a variety of Primula auricula (5) |
