| OMDURMAN | City in the Sudan that was the scene of an 1898 victory for Lord Kitchener's forces |
| ELOBEID | City in the central Sudan that was scene of the defeat of a British and Egyptian army by the Mahdi in 1883 (2,5) |
| CALYPSO | Lord Kitchener's music |
| GALLIPOLI | Peninsula in NW Turkey, between the Dardanelles and the Gulf of Saros, that was the scene of an unsuccessful Allied campaign in 1915 |
| MAHDI | Muhammad Ahmad assumed this title of the Islamic promised redeemer in his campaign to liberate the Sudan in the 1880s |
| LANCASTERHOUSE | Mansion near St James's Palace that was the scene of an agreement in 1979 granting Rhodesia independence from the United Kingdom |
| GETTYSBURG | Pennsylvanian town; the scene of an 1863 battle crucial to the outcome of the American Civil War (10) |
| SOMME | River and department in France, known as the scene of an extended battle in the first world war (5) |
| KHARTOUM | Capital of the Sudan, at the junction of the Blue and White Nile rivers (8) |
| SUSU | A member of a people of West Africa living chiefly in Guinea, the Sudan and Sierra Leone (4) |
| OTAGO | New Zealand province which was the scene of an 1860s gold rush (5) |
| MAINE | Subject of an 1898 slogan |
| LIVERYMAN | Member of a City of London Company who has the right of voting for Lord Mayor. sheriff. etc. (9) |
| PIASTRE | A coin in use at various times in Egypt, Lebanon, Libya, The Sudan, Syria and Tunisia |
| ARABIC | Official language of Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, the Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, the Sudan, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen |
| HINDUSTAN | Land devastated in most of the Sudan |
| SEDATES | The Sudan and Egyptian leaders have fruit that makes them drowsy (7) |
| EMT | Pro at the scene of an accident |
| LOCALE | The scene of an event (6) |
| ONTHESPOT | At the scene of an event |
