| ORIGO | Dame Iris ..... , author of War In Val d'Orcia (1947) |
| TRES | Very, in Val d' Or |
| MURDOCH | Novelist, Dame Iris ... |
| VAL | ___ d'Orcia (Tuscan region) |
| MARS | This planet was given the name of the Roman god of war. In Henry VI, Part 1 (act 1, scene 2), Charles, Dauphin of France says, "___ his moving, even as in the heavens / So in the earth, to this day is |
| AMISH | Tripathi, author of War Of Lanka |
| ARES | God of war in the game "God of War" |
| VINYL | One of millions stacked in Val Shively's store |
| ISERE | Val-d'-; ski resort in the French Alps, east of Courchevel (5) |
| LEO | Author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, _ Tolstoy (3) |
| TOLSTOY | Leo -; author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina (7) |
| LEOTOLSTOY | Russian author of War And Peace and Anna Karenina (3,7) |
| BRINKMANSHIP | Act of going to the very edge of war, in pursuit of a policy (12) |
| WRAPPING | Paper covering end of war in place of The Times |
| DOWJONES | For the hundred years of the twentieth century this New York stock exchange average increased in val |
| VINADELMAR | City in Val-paraiso, Chile, housing Brunet Castle (4,3,3) |
| TROTTIER | Hockey great Bryan born in Val Marie, Saskatchewan |
| DELRIO | City in Val Verde County, Texas (3,3) |
| GIRLFRIEND | Steady type of soldier from regiment left at end of war in bad spirit (10) |
| CENTRALEUROPE | Penny has a rule changed for the tug-of-war in the middle of the continent (7,6) |
