| PENH | In July 1941 the Japanese army took Saigon and began disembarking troops to be garrisoned in Cambodi |
| LANDINGCRAFT | Bringing down a plane used for disembarking troops |
| ASIA | Setting for "Miss Saigon" and "M. Butterfly" |
| JEHOVAHS | In 1941 the Australian government banned the ... Witnesses because the group was considered a threat to morale; oddly they were also targeted by the Nazi regime (7'1) |
| ELEMENTS | Being under the weather, the general's confused. His army took the wrong street (8) |
| HOSTAGE | Army took considerable time to get prisoner for negotiation (7) |
| DEERISLANDS | Group of American islands in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, occupied by the Imperial Japanese Army in 1942 (4,7) |
| AROOMOFONESOWN | 1929 essay with the line "When you asked me to speak about women and fiction I sat down on the banks of a river and began to wonder what the words meant" |
| KHYBERPASS | Mountain route in the Hindu Kush, garrisoned by the British intermittently between 1839 and 1947 |
| THOMASHARRIS | "The Silence of the Lambs" novelist who graduated from Baylor in 1964 and began working as a reporter for the local Waco Tribune-Herald |
| VESPASIAN | Roman emperor who founded the Flavian dynasty and began the construction of the Colosseum (9) |
| BEERGARDEN | Erred and began to go wrong in the drinking place (4-6) |
| GODDARD | Surname of Trisha who had her own talk show in the 2010s and began presenting You Are What You Eat in 2022 (7) |
| BUNYAN | Author and preacher imprisoned for his faith, during which he penned his spiritual autobiography Grace Abounding and began the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress (6) |
| CHIFLEY | Which Labor politician was Prime Minister of Australia from 1945 to 1949 and began the Snowy Mountai |
| SKIMMEDMILK | Read it quickly and began making it lighter, knowing this could be popular with dieters |
| SAMURAI | Japanese army officer (7) |
| SHOGUN | Former Japanese army commander |
| STATIONED | Garrisoned with the weirdest of antidotes (9) |
| ROCK | Plymouth ___, the legendary marker representing the final disembarking point for the Mayflower Pilgrims |
