| BOERWAR | Earliest foreign conflict that officially involved Canadian troops (4,3) |
| UNAWARE | Oblivious to a foreign conflict in hospital department (7) |
| GULFWAR | Conflict that involved Iraq (4,3) |
| IRAQWAR | Conflict that began in March 2003 (4,3) |
| COLDWAR | The global conflict that, among other things, resulted in the Internet (4,3) |
| ATHWART | Conflict that shifts from one side to the other (7) |
| VIETNAM | ____ War, conflict that was the subject matter of 1987 film Platoon (7) |
| PLASSEY | Battle of ?, 1757 conflict that saw victory for the British East India Company under Robert Clive ov |
| BATTLES | Conflicts that could have taken place at Waterloo or Hastings, for example (7) |
| FORGIVEN | Pardoned a number of Romans involved in foreign conflict (8) |
| NAVAL | Like thousands of Canadian troops |
| KOREA | Scene of 1953 war involving Canadian troops |
| SPANISHCIVILWAR | Arch one, quiet and polite unprepared to back foreign conflict (7,5,3) |
| TNT | Ends daft foreign conflict with dynamite |
| GAMBIA | Country that officially takes a "the" |
| PLO | Gp. that officially recognized the State of Israel in 1988 |
| USSR | Cold War federation that officially ended in 1991 (1,1,1,1) |
| HOLLYWOODBOWL | Amphitheatre in Los Angeles that officially opened in 1922 |
| AOL | Company that officially dropped merica n and ine from its name |
| STOLI | Vodka that officially dropped the "-chnaya" from its name in 2022 |
