| NAMUR | Belgian city that formed part of an area attacked by the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge offe |
| WALVISBAY | Namibia city that formed part of South Africa until 1994 (6,3) |
| WILLIAM | Sweet -; flower that formed part of the Duchess of Cambridge's wedding bouquet with lily of the vall |
| BRIGADE | The Charge of the Light -; poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson about a disastrous cavalry assault during the Battle of Balaclava (7) |
| DAHLIA | One of the types of flower grown by Charlie McCormick in his Dorset garden and one that formed part of Monty Don's jewel garden (6) |
| TUVALU | Polynesian country that formed part of the British colony of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands from 1916 to 1976 (6) |
| TUNIS | It was a Roman city on the north coast of Africa, near the site of ancient Carthage. It was occupied by the Germans in 1942 and liberated by Allied troops in 1943. In The Tempest (act 2, scene 1), Seb |
| BERLINWALL | 91-mile-long barrier of barbed wire and concrete that formed part of the Iron Curtain and its crossi |
| ADAGIO | - for Strings; composition by Samuel Barber that formed part of the soundtrack in Oliver Stone's 1986 film Platoon (6) |
| KHYBERPASS | Route through the Hindu Kush mountains between Afghanistan and Pakistan that formed part of the ancient Silk Road (6,4) |
| NUTS | McAuliffe's reply during the Battle of the Bulge |
| ELOBEID | The capital of the Sudanese state of North Kurdufan, attacked by the Mahdists in 1882 (2-5) |
| CUSTER | Cavalry general who led around 200 of his men to their deaths during the Battle of the Little Bighor |
| HAIG | Commander-in-chief during the Battle of the Somme who co-founded the Royal British Legion (4) |
| ALINE | Style/silhouette of skirt or dress that formed part of Christian Dior's "New Look", later reinvented by Yves Saint Laurent in his "Trapeze" collection (1-4) |
| BOMBE | - glacee; ice-cream pudding that formed part of the Queen and Prince Philip's wedding breakfast (5) |
| ARDENNES | Belgian forest region known as the site for the WWII offensive, the Battle of the Bulge |
| LITTLEROUNDTOP | Hill defended by the Union during the Battle of Gettysburg |
| DANNEBROG | National flag of Denmark, legendarily supposed to have fallen from heaven during the Battle of Lyndanisse in 1219 (9) |
| ANTWERP | Belgian city that is the centre of the diamond industry (7) |
