| THESOMME | Battle of ... ..... , in which Sassoon, Graves, Tolkien and Rosenberg all fought (3,5) |
| EGYPT | The Prince Of -, in which Val Kilmer provided the voice of Moses (5) |
| ANTIETAM | The Battle of ... in the American Civil War is also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg (8) |
| GARY | City in the US state of Indiana which was the birthplace of Michael Jackson (4) |
| ETHEL | Julius and - Rosenberg, US couple executed for spying (5) |
| ETHELS | Kennedy and Rosenberg |
| SADOWA | The Battle of- in 1866 was a decisive victory for Prussia in the Austro-Prussian War (6) |
| MIDWAY | The Battle of --- in June 1942 saw most of Japan's carrier fleet destroyed by the US (6) |
| INKLINGS | Tolkien and C S Lewis were members of this informal literary discussion group in Oxford during the 1930s and 1940s |
| DREAMERS | Poem by Siegfried Sassoon that begins "Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land..." (8) |
| BRUBAKER | Stuart Rosenberg film starring Robert Redford and Yaphet Kotto (8) |
| HANDLUKE | 1967 Stuart Rosenberg film starring Paul Newman in the title role (4,4,4) |
| HANNIGAN | Alyson _, actress who played Willow Rosenberg in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (8) |
| SINGSING | Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were incarcerated here |
| TRAITORS | Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, by some accounts |
| OFDANIEL | 1971 novel by EL Doctorow inspired by the 1951 Rosenberg Trial (3,4,2,6) |
| GALADRIEL | Royal elf created by J R R Tolkien and played by Cate Blanchett in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film series |
| SOMERVILLECOLLEGE | Constituent part of the University of Oxford converted into a military hospital during World War I whose patients included Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon |
| SIEGFRIEDLINE | Piece of verse by Sassoon in defence of war? |
| OXFORD | Alma mater for J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis |