| ELALAMEIN | Coastal town in north-western Egypt, the scene of two Second World War battles (2,7) |
| LOCK | One of two second-row players in a rugby union scrum |
| ALAMEIN | Town in northern Egypt, the scene of two WWII battles, El (7) |
| NEFERTITI | Queen of the 18th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, the great royal wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten (9) |
| LAKEONEGA | Lake in north-western Russia; the second-largest in Europe (4,5) |
| AMENHOTEP | Name of four kings of Egypt (the fourth one became Akhenaten) (9) |
| YPRES | Belgian town which was the scene of two battles in World War I (5) |
| SEDAN | Town on the River Meuse which was the scene of a 1940 Second World War battle which began the German invasion of France (5) |
| NARVIK | Port in northern Norway, the scene of two naval battles in 1940 (6) |
| PORTISHEAD | Coastal town in North Somerset on the Severn Estuary that is the location of the headquarters of Avon and Somerset Constabulary |
| ARNHEM | Town in the Netherlands, site of a Second World War battle (6) |
| SCARPE | Three First World War battles were named after this river of the Arras area of northern France (6) |
| MARNE | French river that was the scene of two unsuccessful German offensives during World War I (5) |
| TOWERS | The Two -, second volume of The Lord of the Rings (6) |
| MISTRESS | "Ancient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the ___ of Greece and the servant of Rome": Henry Fuseli (8) |
| LUXOR | Town in S. Egypt: the southern part of the site of ancient Thebes (5) |
| CHATTANOOGA | City in S.E. Tennessee, scene of two battles during the Civil War (11) |
| GOLDRUSH | An event such as occurred in the Klondike in north-western Canada in the late 1890s (4,4) |
| BULGE | Second World War battle in the Ardennes (5) |
| SCARBOROUGH | Coastal town in North Yorkshire home to the Stephen Joseph Theatre (11) |
