| BORABORA | Island in the Leeward group of the Society Islands used as a US military supply base in World War II (4,4) |
| ATA | Tonga island used as a prison |
| TAHITI | Largest island of tne Windward group of the Society Islands in French Polynesia (6) |
| HOLYLOCH | Body of seawater at the Cowal Peninsula, Scotland, once used as a US nuclear submarine base (4, 4) |
| NUTMEG | Spice derived from the seeds of a tree indigenous to the Molucca Islands, used to flavour bechamel sauce, wilted spinach and custard tarts (6) |
| BIKINI | Atoll in the Marshall Islands used for US nuclear weapons tests from 1946-1958 (6) |
| BIKINIATOLL | Coral reef in the Marshall Islands used for 23 nuclear bomb tests from 1946-1958 (6,5) |
| SOCIETYISLANDS | Windward and Leeward groups |
| YAP | Island in the Caroline Islands of the Pacific Ocean; an important Japanese naval base in World War II |
| BARBUDA | A coral island in the Leeward Islands of the Caribbean, part of a twinisland state with Antigua (7) |
| OKINAWA | This Japanese island was the scene of a major battle in WWII and still hosts a US military base. (7) |
| ANGUILLA | West Indies Island in the Leeward Islands group east of Puerto Rico (8) |
| ZEEBRUGGE | Port in N.W. Belgium which was a German submarine base in World War I (9) |
| OAKLEAF | Any one of the Quercus folios symbolising the National Trust or forming a cluster on a US military decoration; or, a lettuce with serrated edges, like said foliage (3-4) |
| MONTSERRAT | A volcanic island in the Caribbean, in the Leeward Islands (10) |
| OAKSLEAF | A maple's leaf is a symbol of Canada; an ...' . ... (with three acorns) is a US military decoration (3'1,4) |
| MURMANSK | City of far north-western Russia, founded as an ice-free military supply port in 1915 (8) |
| STANSTED | Airport in Essex that opened in 1943 as a US Air Force bomber base (8) |
| TAMMYDUCKWORTH | Illinois congresswoman and Iraq War veteran elected to her first term as a US senator in 2016: 2 wds. |
| SAYONARA | 1957 film starring Marlon Brando as a US Air Force pilot in Japan who falls for a local woman |
