| MIDWAY | Battle of ---, naval battle that took place in the Pacific in June 1942 (6) |
| USHANT | Island off the coast of NW France that was scene of naval battles in 1778 and 1794 (6) |
| HASTINGS | East Sussex resort that gives its name to a 1066 battle that took place eight miles to the north at Senlac Hill (8) |
| TOBRUK | The Germans took 35,000 prisoners when they captured which Mediterranean port in June, 1942? (6) |
| TAHITI | Island called the "queen of the Pacific" in "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" |
| SCURVY | Crossing the Pacific in 1520, Magellan lost more than 80 per cent of his crew to what? (6) |
| FELLIN | Film director, finally failing, took place in the ranks (4,2) |
| SOLOMON | Some of the most savage fighting in the Pacific in WWII occurred over the British protectorate of the ... Islands |
| LOVING | SHOW THAT TOOK PLACE IN CORINTH |
| AMELIAEARHART | US flier, lost in the Pacific in 1937 (6,7) |
| JAMESCOOK | Royal Navy captain who died in Hawaii during his third exploratory voyage in the Pacific in 1779 |
| THWART | Snooker battles that one may have succumbed to? (6) |
| CANA | Location of the marriage at which the miracle of turning water into wine took place in the Gospel of John |
| CORONATION | Monarchical event that took place in the UK in 1937, 1953 and 2023 (10) |
| HEYERDAHL | His voyage across the Pacific in the raft, Kon-Tiki, caught the imagination of the world; he was Tho |
| EASTERRISING | An armed insurrection against British rule that took place in Dublin in April 1916 in Ireland (6,6) |
| NEK | The Battle of Laing's ____ took place in the first Boer war |
| YUKONTERRITORY | Former name of the region where the Klondike gold rush took place in the 1890s |
| EVENT | A memorable occurrence that took place in the Seventies (5) |
| EASTERISLAND | Resident, alas, moving to place in the Pacific (6,6) |
