| TORABORA | Cave complex targeted during the invasion of Afghanistan |
| SHOCKANDAWE | Military strategy during the invasion of Iraq |
| SALTII | 1979 treaty derailed by the USSR invasion of Afghanistan |
| ABS | They're targeted during crunch time at the gym |
| SHRIMP | Marine decapod crustaceans valued commercially and ecologically, targeted during Kuwait's fishing season. (6) |
| THIRTIES | The decade of the bodyline series, the invasion of Abyssinia and the Silver Jubilee of King George V |
| MARTELLO | Coastal fortification such as those used against the invasion of Britain during the Napoleonic Wars (8,5) |
| TOWER | Coastal fortification such as those used against the invasion of Britain during the Napoleonic Wars (8,5) |
| OVERLORD | Codename of the invasion of Normandy by Allied forces, commonly referred to as D-Day (8) |
| SCIPIO | Roman general who commanded the invasion of Carthage in the Second Punic War (6) |
| NORMANCONQUEST | The invasion of England in 1066 (6,8) |
| WARSAWPACT | Agreement from which Albania withdrew in 1968, after the invasion of Czechoslovakia |
| ROMMEL | German commander at the invasion of Normandy |
| BERRA | Yankee great who served at the invasion of Normandy |
| PASTRYWAR | Name given to the invasion of Mexico by French forces in 1838 |
| STOLI | Vodka brand that shed its longer, Russian name in opposition to the invasion of Ukraine |
| TORA | Cave complex in Afghanistan: ___ Bora |
| CARLSBAD | Site of a noted cave complex |
| BORA | Afghanistan's Tora ___ cave complex |
| HENGIST | Warrior from the 5th century and brother of Horsa, who took part in the invasion and conquest of Britain (7) |
