| COD | Fish in a series of wars between the U.K. and Iceland |
| CURTISCUP | Biennial amateur women's golf match between the U.K and the U.S. (6,3) |
| AWARE | Conscious of war between the capitals of Albania and Estonia (5) |
| ENDER | Sci-fi character who's trained through a series of war games |
| PUNIC | Series of wars fought between Rome and Carthage from 264 BC to 146 BC, resulting in the destruction of Carthage (5) |
| OPIUM | What substance was the cause of war between Britain and China 1839-1842? (5) |
| CRUSADES | Series of wars to recover the holy land |
| SCRAWNY | Puny returns of war between American states (7) |
| SHARD | The ___ 95-story skyscraper that is the tallest building in the U.K. and the European Union designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano |
| NATO | Post-Second World War alliance that includes the U.K. and the U.S. |
| FALKLANDS | Name of the war between the United Kingdom and Argentina featured in multiple films including 2011's The Iron Lady (9) |
| LURIE | Pulitzer-winning professor who penned Don't Tell the Grown-ups, The War Between the Tates, books for children and also edited The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales (5) |
| ABMS | Subjects of a '72 agreement between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. |
| MARILYNBELL | September 9, 1954: Toronto-born long distance swimmer who at just 16 years old, becomes the first person to swim across Lake Ontario. Amid a newspaper war between the Toronto Daily Star and the Toront |
| ALISONLURIE | Author of novels The War Between the Tates and Foreign Affairs |
| GETTYSBURG | Where Lee-siders took a pounding in the War between the States (10) |
| ALISON | Author of novels The War Between the Tates and Foreign Affairs (6,5) |
| EUR | Setting of the U.K. and Ukr. |
| PMS | Leaders of the U.K. and Isr. |
| BADBLOOD | Dwight Eisenhower was 1959's Person of the Year, for smoothing over the ___ between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. |
