| OISE | Department south of Somme |
| ORNE | French department south of Calvados (4) |
| ESSONNE | French department south of Paris in the Ile-de-France region; capital: Evry (7) |
| AMIENS | Capital of Somme department, France (6) |
| MEMOS | Reminders of Somme battle (5) |
| HAM | Town of the Somme department of France - Joan of Arc and the future Napoleon III were two notable detainees in its fortress (3) |
| HAIG | Douglas -, commander of British forces during the Battle of the Somme (4) |
| BETE | __ de somme: beast of burden |
| PRIMEMOVERS | Chief architects of plan, initially: River Somme involved |
| AAMILNE | Author injured in the Battle of the Somme |
| SOLAIRE | Of the sun, on the Somme |
| WWI | Battle of the Somme setting, for short |
| IVORGURNEY | British composer whose volumes of poetry include 1917's Severn & Somme (4,6) |
| EPEHY | Village of the Somme, recaptured from the Germans by British forces on 18 September 1918, a small-scale but morale boosting victory |
| GURNEY | Ivor ?, British composer whose volumes of poetry include 1917's Severn & Somme (6) |
| EDWINLUTYENS | Architect who designed the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme |
| STARSHELL | Terrible suffering of hero that shed light on the Somme? |
| HAILING | Nothing revolutionary in the Butcher of the Somme coming down hard (7) |
| DOUGLASHAIG | Scotsman, commander during the Battle of the Somme (7,4) |
| FIRSTWORLDWAR | Conflict that included the Battle of the Somme in 1916 (5,5,3) |
