| NEWMODELARMY | English fighting force led by Thomas Fairfax, 1645-50 |
| FAIRFAX | Thomas, 17c English general who commanded the Parliamentarian army 1645-50 (7) |
| EDWARD | English fighting over Germany to get daughter to an old king (6) |
| INDIANARMY | Force led by General Bipin Rawat |
| CITIZEN | Rishi assembled unprofessional force, led by 7dn 6dn (5,7,4) |
| IRISH | Rishi assembled unprofessional force, led by 7dn 6dn (5,7,4) |
| ARMY | Rishi assembled unprofessional force, led by 7dn 6dn (5,7,4) |
| BLACKTOM | Nickname of Thomas Fairfax, general and parliamentary commander-in-chief during the English Civil War |
| MARVELL | Metaphysical poet who wrote To His Coy Mistress, The Garden and the country house poem and encomium to his patron Thomas Fairfax Upon Appleton House (7) |
| AQABA | City taken by Arab forces, led by Lawrence of Arabia, in 1917 (5) |
| VICKSBURG | Last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi in the American Civil War, besieged by forces led by Ulysses S Grant |
| ARGONNEFOREST | Natural barrier faced by American forces led by Pershing, in one of the First World War’s last battles |
| GULF | ? War, 1991 conflict between coalition forces led by the United States and Iraq |
| NASEBY | Village in Northamptonshire, scene of a 1645 battle where Fairfax and Cromwell defeated the Royalists (6) |
| GRANDMA | Relative force led to dam collapse (7) |
| INFIDEL | Non-believer in force led one to change direction |
| ECOFRIENDLY | Liberating force led in close to Stepney Green |
| DCAREA | Locale of Bethesda, MD, and Fairfax, VA |
| AVE | Los Angeles's Melrose or Fairfax, for example: Abbr. |
| SOMERVILLE | Mary -- (nee Fairfax), 1780-1872, Scottish mathematician and astronomer (10) |
