| YAMAMOTO | Japanese naval officer who conceived of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor (last name; 8) |
| TOMMYGUN | What weapon was named by its designer after John T Thompson, the American army officer who conceived the idea for it? (5,3) |
| INON | Aware of the surprise: 2 wds. |
| ISOROKUYAMAMOTO | Japanese admiral who planned and directed the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor |
| TOJO | Japanese prime minister who ordered the attack on Pearl Harbor |
| INFAMY | Day Of ____ speech, reaction by U.S. President Roosevelt to the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor (6) |
| TORA | When said three times, a 1970 film about the attack on Pearl Harbor |
| NEVADA | Ship damaged in the attack on Pearl Harbor |
| TORATORATORA | *1970 war film about the attack on Pearl Harbor |
| SEALORD | Either of the two most senior naval officers who sit on the Admiralty Board of the Ministry of Defence (3,4) |
| MARRYAT | Naval officer who developed a code of maritime flag signalling and wrote The Children of the New Forest and a number of sea stories (7) |
| YAP | Group of four islands in the Caroline Islands of the Pacific which were an important Japanese naval base in the Second World War (3) |
| GOEBBELS | Nazi minister of propaganda who served as German chancellor for one day (last name; 8) |
| RICHARDS | Legendary mentor seated in the Gladiators' dugout during the Pakistan Super League 2025 match.(Last Name) (8) |
| VERY | Means of launching a flare as a distress symbol, the ... pistol is named for the US naval officer who invented it |
| PEARLHARBOR | The US entered WWII in 1941 after a surprise attack on this Hawaiian naval base (5,6) |
| BYRD | US naval officer who claimed to have been the first to fly over the North Pole |
| ACTON | Sir John, English naval officer who was the chief minister of Naples from 1779-1806 (5) |
| HAROLDSTARK | U.S. naval officer who was chief of naval operations 1939-42 (6,5) |
| SURPRISEATTACK | Assault on Pearl Harbor, e.g. |
