| OPERATIONDESERTSHIELD | Codename for operations by the US and allies before the combat stage of the Gulf War |
| OSHAKATI | Namibian city was used as a base of operations by the South African Defence Force during the South African Border War and Namibian War of Independence |
| DESERTSTORM | Code name for the last US and allies' attack on Iraq (6,5) |
| WARCHEST | US and allies introducing smart arms funded by this? (3,5) |
| MESSINES | A successful operation by the British to take this ridge in June 1917 was a prelude to the battle of Passchendaele (8) |
| CONCISE | Brief caught working with Russia and its allies before start of election |
| IMPLICATE | Involve politician in a licit operation by the end (9) |
| AMMO | A diagram mooted for displaying the combat supplies (4) |
| BATTLE | East Sussex town named after the combat fought nearby in 1066 (6) |
| TAB | Loop back in the combat zone (3) |
| BLANKSPACE | Ted Turner was 1991's Person of the Year, for filling the ___ of our TV screens with news of the Gulf War |
| ADAIR | Red, U.S. fire-fighter who attended the fires in Kuwait at the end of the Gulf War (5) |
| THREEKINGS | George Clooney movie set at the end of the Gulf War (2 wds.) |
| EMBARGO | Legal stoppage of commerce, such as the one imposed upon India by the US and Japan in 1998 |
| CATALINA | Seaplane widely used by the US and other countries during World War 2, in military use until the 1980s (8) |
| NIAGARA | Name of the large waterfall of note shared by the USA and Canada |
| OMAHA | Codename for one of the Normandy landing sites for the Allies on D-Day in WWII (5) |
| ENIWETOK | Which Pacific atoll was taken from the Japanese by the US and used as an atomic weapons testing site |
| COLINPOWELL | Who was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Gulf War? (5,6) |
| SCUD | Series of ballistic missiles developed by the Soviet Union, used extensively by Iraq during the Gulf War (4) |
