| MANFRIDAY | Companion the narrator had in battle on island |
| SOMMELIER | Person serving in battle on ship essentially lost |
| URIAH | Old Testament soldier killed in battle on instructions from David (5) |
| NELSON | Emma Hamilton's lover, who died in battle on 21 October 1805 (6) |
| IWOJIMA | The battle on this Japanese island in WWII produced Joe Rosenthal's enduring image of the US marines raising the the American flag at the summit of Mt Suribachi (3,4) |
| SCOTLAND | Culloden, the last ever pitched battle on British soil, took place in 1746 in this part of the UK (8) |
| SHEPHERD | Hut contains parking for his companion, the agricultural worker (8) |
| CHAPERONE | Companion: the first man, perhaps, to hug royalty (9) |
| LOVEMATCH | Nothing dull with companion: the perfect coupling? |
| LAUREL | Hardy companion the bay tree (6) |
| BOSCH | Sounds like German smells companion, the old Dutch painter (5) |
| TWITCH | Taunt a companion, the jerk! (6) |
| SISTERS | Artemis' companions, the Pleiades, are also called the seven ... |
| ALLAN | In the 1953 animation of The Tell-Tale Heart, James Mason is the narrator and Stanley Baker is the voice of the author, Edgar ... Poe |
| ESCOBAR | Notorious Colombian drug lord who died in a gun battle on the roof tops of Medellin in 1993, Pablo . |
| CAMBRAI | World War I battle on the Western Front in 1917 which saw the first effective large-scale use of tanks (7) |
| BATAILLE | 'Battle' on the Plains of Abraham, in Quebec City |
| MAKECLEAR | Don't confuse relative from Kildare with Crystal's companion - the one you can see through! (4,5) |
| CORGIS | "My soldiers, my companions" (The Queen) (6) |
| CAULFIELD | Holden, the narrator in JD Salinger's 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye (9) |
