| SIRGALAHAD | British ship destroyed on June 8, 1982 during the Falklands War (3,7) |
| GOOSEGREEN | Falklands War battle between 28th and 29th May 1982, during which Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert Jones was killed (5,5) |
| GIANTPANDA | Xing Er, a 7-year-old male of this species, escaped his enclosure at the Copenhagen Zoo on June 8; staff captured him by using a tranquilizer dart |
| MOSHE | Later known as Israel's defence minister, Captain ... Dayan was injured in the eye when a bullet fired by a Vichy soldier struck his binoculars in Beirut on June 8, 1941 |
| DIANEKEATON | Comedic actress who was given an AFI Life Achievement Award on June 8: 2 wds. |
| FRANCISPYM | MP promoted to foreign secretary during the Falklands conflict |
| ESCARPMENT | Resent camp being destroyed on ridge face (10) |
| COPENHAGEN | Scandinavian capital bombarded by British ships in 1801, during the Napoleonic Wars (10) |
| EXOCET | This French-built anti-ship missile was used during the Falklands War |
| POTBOILERS | Put on British ships, best upcoming novels (10) |
| NOTT | Sir John ___, Secretary of State for Defence during the Falklands War (4) |
| HAIG | Alexander ___, US Secretary of State during the Falklands War (4) |
| BELGRANO | General ____ , Argentine navy ship sunk by British forces in the Falklands War of 1982 (8) |
| LEIGHTON | President of the Royal Academy from 1878-96 who painted Crenaia the Nymph of the Dargle, The Garden of the Hesperides andA Flaming June (8) |
| BRISTOL | Type 82 destroyer (launched on June 30, 1969) active in the Falklands War (7) |
| GUTTED | Destroyed on the inside, as by a fire |
| GRAHAMSUTHERLAND | English artist whose 1954 painting of Winston Churchill was destroyed on the orders of Lady Churchill |
| PITCAIRN | The population of this island is descended from the mutineers of the British ship HMS Bounty. |
| ELEVATOR | Lift the French tax on gold after end of June (8) |
| LORDCHALFONT | Alun Arthur Gwynne Jones, 100, Foreign and Commonwealth Office minister at the time of the Falklands War (4,8) |
