| USHANT | French island, scene of four naval battles between 1778 and 1794 (6) |
| LEPANTO | Port city of western Greece between the Gulfs of Corinth and Patras; site of a 1571 naval battle between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy League of Pope Pius V (7) |
| TRAFALGAR | 1805 naval battle between a combined French and Spanish fleet and Britain's Royal Navy (9) |
| JUTLAND | Northern European peninsula, scene of a major naval battle between British and German fleets in 1916 (7) |
| THANET | Kent island, scene of many Norse invasions (6) |
| MIDWAY | The --- Islands, scene of a decisive 1942 battle in which Japan's carrier fleet was destroyed (6) |
| NARVIK | Norwegian port that was the scene of two naval battles in 1940 (6) |
| DANTON | Georges ?, French statesman and revolutionary guillotined in 1794 (6) |
| ODESSA | Black Sea port of southern Ukraine founded in 1794 by decree of Russian empress Catherine the Great (6) |
| NELSON | Horatio, British naval hero who lost sight in his right eye during the siege of Calvi in Corsica in 1794 (6) |
| SPEARS | 'When the stars threw down their ___' (William Blake Songs of Experience (1794) |
| DALTON | John, English chemist who described colour blindness in 1794 (6) |
| IWOJIMA | Japanese island, scene of fierce fighting in February and March, 1945 (3,4) |
| GIBBON | Arboreal ape - English historian, d. 1794 (6) |
| COTTON | Back in 1794, Eli Whitney changed America by inventing an engine (or "gin") which could separate the fibers of this fluffy, white crop from its seeds |
| LAPALMA | One of the Canary Islands, scene of a volcanic eruption and earthquakes in 1949 (2,5) |
| IWO | Japanese island, scene of WWII battle, ... Jima (3) |
| OKINAWA | Japanese coral island, scene of heavy fighting in World War II (7) |
| LISSA | (Old name of) Adriatic island giving its name to two naval battles fought in 1811 and 1866 (5) |
| DOGFIGHTS | Battles between fighter planes at close quarters (3-6) |
