| STALAGS | German prisoner of war camps (7) |
| COLDITZ | A castle near which German town was used as a top-security prisoner of war camp during World War II? (7) |
| OFLAG | Type of German prisoner-of-war camp for captured enemy officers, chiefly used during World War II (5) |
| KINGRAT | 1962 debut novel by James Clavell, set in a World War II prisoner of war camp (4,3) |
| STALAG | A German prisoner-of-war camp in World War II |
| EMPOWER | Authorise revolutionary troops to hold prisoner-of-war (7) |
| POWWOWS | Meetings where Prisoner of War really impresses (7) |
| PILLOWS | Prisoners of war protect sick, giving support for heads (7) |
| STALAGLUFT | ___III, World War II prisoner-of-war camp that held captured Allied air force personnel (6,4) |
| CULTYBRAGGAN | Former prisoner of war camp located in Perthshire (12) |
| HEROES | Hogan's -, sitcom set in a prisoner of war camp (6) |
| NORMANCROSS | --- --- Prison, the world's first purpose-built prisoner-of-war camp, built in Cambridgeshire in 1796-97 (6,5) |
| POWDERED | Prisoner of war and German communist in ground (8) |
| POWER | Might of monarch supporting prisoner of war |
| BAKINGPOWDER | Graduate is on the board with prisoner-of-war and the German agent responsible for The Rising (6,6) |
| GUNPOWDER | First to give a French prisoner of war the German explosive (9) |
| NEAVE | Airey, first British prisoner of war to escape from Colditz Castle in World War II (5) |
| BADER | Douglas ---, World War II RAF fighter ace who was a prisoner of war in Colditz from 1942-45 (5) |
| THEGREATESCAPE | 1963 war film starring Steve McQueen as a U.S. prisoner of war (3,5,6) |
| STAR | Post-war, prisoner of war was extracted and became a famous person (4) |
