| OVERLORD | Codename of the invasion of Normandy by Allied forces, commonly referred to as D-Day (8) |
| SWORD | Codename of the D-Day landing beach closest to Caen |
| ROMMEL | German commander at the invasion of Normandy |
| BERRA | Yankee great who served at the invasion of Normandy |
| NEO | Codename of the Playstation 4 Pro gaming console |
| GEORDIES | What are people from Tyneside in the north-east of England commonly referred to as? (8) |
| THIRTIES | The decade of the bodyline series, the invasion of Abyssinia and the Silver Jubilee of King George V |
| SCOTLAND | Country whose devolved legislature is commonly referred to as Holyrood (8) |
| CITYBOND | Security commonly referred to as a "muni" |
| MARTELLO | Coastal fortification such as those used against the invasion of Britain during the Napoleonic Wars (8,5) |
| NORMANDY | Allied forces landed here on D-Day 1944 as part of Operation Neptune |
| CORALSEA | Battle of the ____, 1942 WWII conflict between Japan and Allied forces in the South Pacific (5,3) |
| GALLIPOLI | Peninsula of NW Turkey between the Dardanelles and the Aegean Sea, scene of an attempted invasion of the Ottoman Empire by Allied forces during World War I 1915 (9) |
| TORABORA | Cave complex targeted during the invasion of Afghanistan |
| ILLFATED | Cursed terrorist leader caught by combined Allied forces, primarily (3-5) |
| SALVIA | The largest genus of plants in the mint family, commonly referred to as sage |
| UTAHBEACH | Code name for the westernmost point of the Allied landings during the D-Day invasion of Normandy |
| WAR | The monument on Turpin Road in Walford is commonly referred to as the __ Memorial (3) |
| BIND | The wild plant Convolvulus arvensis is more commonly referred to as ___weed (4) |
| MOBULA | A genus of ray, commonly referred to as devil or flying rays |
