| CAVELL | Edith Louisa _; nurse heroine of the First World War (6) |
| VERDUN | City in the Meuse department of northeastern France, site of the longest and largest battle of the First World War (6) |
| MILLER | Robyn __, nurse who works in the emergency department in Casualty (6) |
| REDSOX | Winner of the first World Series (as the "Americans") |
| LYTTON | Louisa _, Anna Karin's former colleague who just became a mum (6) |
| DENTAL | ____ nurse, one who passes instruments, mixes fillings etc for an expert in tooth care (6) |
| AGENCY | _____ nurse, one working in healthcare in more than one setting (6) |
| NUTRIX | Lupa ____, nurse of Romulus |
| PORTIA | Heroine of the William Shakespeare play The Merchant of Venice (6) |
| WILLIAMSON | Noted for his descriptions of nature, the countryside and of the First World War, author of the A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight series and Tarka the Otter (10) |
| IMOGEN | Heroine of the Shakespeare play Cymbeline (6) |
| HELENA | Heroine of the Shakespeare play All's Well that Ends Well (6) |
| MERIDA | Heroine of the 2012 animated film Brave, voiced by Kelly Macdonald (6) |
| THISBE | Heroine of the play in A Midsummer Night's Dream (6) |
| WEAVER | Who played Ripley, heroine of the Aliens films? (6) |
| GENERALHAIG | Ronald Reagan's first Secretary of State or the commander of the British Expeditionary Force during much of the First World War |
| MARGIE | "My Little" TV heroine of the '50s |
| YPRES | Nicknamed "Wipers" by British troops, Belgian town that was the site of three battles of the First World War including one during the Race to the Sea (5) |
| SOMME | The Battle of the _, major battle of the First World War (5) |
| REMEMBRANCEDAY | Anniversary of the end of the First World War (11,3) |
