| DIRECTCURRENT | Edison Electric Light Company's side, in a nineteenth-century "war" |
| SOUTH | One side in a 19th-century war, with "the" |
| KARENINA | Vronsky's lover, in a nineteenth-century novel |
| CRIMEA | Ukrainian peninsula, site of a 19th-century war (6) |
| OPIUM | Drug central to a 19th-century war between Great Britain and China |
| GALLIANO | What Italian herb liqueur is named after a 19th-century war hero? (8) |
| ELOI | Earth dwellers of the 8,028th century in a 19th-century book |
| CHARCOALPIT | In a 19th-century North American forest, a round area about 35 feet wide, used for converting wood into fuel |
| SHEPHERDSARISE | Christmas carol first recorded in a 19th-century manuscript from the parish of Winterbome Zelston in Dorset (9,5) |
| EMMA | Younger sister of Isabella in a 19th-century novel |
| MEG | Eldest March sister, in a 19th-century novel |
| PEEL | John, Cumbrian huntsman who was celebrated in a 19th-century song (4) |
| IDEAL | The nature of Sir Robert Chiltern in a 19th-century play title |
| KLEPHT | A Greek resistance fighter following the Turkish conquest of the 15th century or during the 19th-century war of independence; subsequently, a mountain-dwelling brigand (6) |
| LITTLEWOMEN | New tome - it'll beat a nineteenth-century book |
| CHARTIST | Church painter, a nineteenth century reformer |
| BROWNING | Toasting a nineteenth century poet |
| PENINSULA | 19th-century war zone writer almost isolated (9) |
| ELCID | 11th-century war hero with a horse named Babieca |
| VOICES | Forgotten - - -, the Imperial War Museum's oral archive of interviews with 20th Century war survivors (6) |
