| RAMILLIES | Belgian village where the Duke of Marlborough defeated the French in 1706 (9) |
| SPA | * Belgian village where Roman soldiers enjoyed warm mineral springs |
| CORFU | Greek island where the Duke of Edinburgh was born in 1921 and Gerald Durrell and his family decamped prior to the Second World War (5) |
| AGINCOURT | Battle in which Henry V defeated the French in 1415 (9) |
| STANDREWS | Scottish university founded in the 15th century where the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge studied (2,7) |
| ESPIONAGE | Why Daniel Defoe was in Scotland in 1706-07 (9) |
| OUDENARDE | Battle of 1708 in which British and Austrian troops under Marlborough and Prince Eugene defeated the French |
| TRAFALGAR | 1805 naval battle in which the English under Nelson defeated the French and Spanish (9) |
| CRECY | Village in France that was the scene of the first decisive battle of the Hundred Years' War when the English defeated the French in 1346 |
| BLENHEIM | 1704 battle in the War of the Spanish Succession won by the Duke of Marlborough (8) |
| CHEMISTRY | What may be taught at school about helium, head of Marlborough is to evaluate |
| PACHELBEL | Johann ___ (1653-1706) (9) |
| POITIERS | French city that was the scene of the 1356 battle in which the English under the Black Prince defeated the French (8) |
| EDWARD | King of England whose army defeated the French force under Philip Vi at the Battle of Crecy, where his son the Black Prince acquired the emblem of three white feathers (6) |
| ABOUKIRBAY | Site of the Battle of the Nile in which Nelson defeated the French (7,3) |
| ARABELLACHURCHILL | Elder sister of 1st Duke of Marlborough (8,9) |
| TWINING | Thomas ___, English merchant who opened Britain's first known tea room in the Strand in 1706 |
| ALMYNA | Restoration tragedy, subtitled The Arabian Vow, by Delarivier Manley, first performed in 1706 |
| PHU | In 1954 Ho Chi Minh's forces defeated the French at the Battle of Dien Bien ... |
| HAWORTH | Quaint Yorkshire village where the Bronte sisters wrote their novels whilst living in the parsonage there (7) |
