| SPIONKOP | Battle in the Second Boer War fought on a hill by the Tugela River (5,3) |
| COLENSO | Town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; scene of a December 1899 battle in the Second Boer War |
| EDGEHILL | Pitched battle of the English Civil War fought on October 23, 1642 (8) |
| CURATOR | Dog taken to a hill by museum employee (7) |
| RIVER | Tugela or Vaal (5) |
| MONTECASSINO | Site in Italy of a Benedictine monastery (530 AD) and a battle in the second world war (5,7) |
| ATBARA | Battle of the Second Sudan War fought on April 8, 1898 (6) |
| BORODINO | Russian battle in the Napoleonic Wars, fought on September 7, 1812 (8) |
| IWOJIMA | 5-week World War II battle fought on a Japanese island (3,4) |
| RASSLED | Fought on a mat, to some |
| MAHIKENG | Provincial capital in South Africa (pop about 50,00), the site of a 217-day siege in the Second Boer War (8) |
| MAFEKING | Town in South Africa where British troops and civilians were besieged for 217 days during the Second Boer War (8) |
| SPION | The Battle of -- Kop was fought in January 1900 between Boer and British forces in the Second Boer War (5) |
| KITCHENER | Field marshal who in 1900 became overall commander of the British forces in the Second Boer War (9) |
| MYTILENE | Naval battle of the Peloponnesian War fought in 406 BC (8) |
| SWEETPEA | Described in I Stood Tip-Toe Upon a Little Hill by John Keats, a leguminous plant with colourful flowers grown on canes (5,3) |
| LADYSMITH | South African city in KwaZulu-Natal subjected to a four-month siege by Boer forces during the Second Boer War (1899-1902) (9) |
| KRUGERRAND | Gold coin featuring the likeness of the statesman whose actions were one cause of the Second Boer War |
| DEWET | Afrikaner commander who led the Orange Free State army during the Second Boer War (2,3) |
| LITTORAL | Settled hill by a lake shore (8) |
