| THESOMME | Battle of ___, in which Sassoon, Graves, Tolkien and Rosenberg all fought (3,5) |
| ETHEL | Julius and - Rosenberg, US couple executed for spying (5) |
| ETHELS | Kennedy and Rosenberg |
| INKLINGS | Tolkien and C S Lewis were members of this informal literary discussion group in Oxford during the 1930s and 1940s |
| RHODESIA | Hard poetry in broadcast promoted ___ in which Smith was authoritative? (8) |
| 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) |
| TOWTON | The Battle of ___ in the Wars of the Roses in March, 1461 was the largest battle ever fought in Engl |
| CAMBRAI | The battle of ___ in November 1917 saw the first large-scale use of massed tanks in warfare (7) |
| ELALAMEIN | The Second Battle of ____ in 1942 was described by Churchill as "perhaps, the end of the beginning" |
| ASHDOWN | AEthelred and a young Alfred the Great defeated the Danes at the battle of ___ in AD 871 (7) |
| 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 |
| SAFARIPARK | A long swim with day off in island ___ in which pride is visible? (6,4) |
| ANART | "Conversation is ___ in which a man has all mankind for his competitors": Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| 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 |
