| KINNOCK | Labour Party leader defeated at the 1992 general election (7) |
| NAPOLEON | Military leader defeated at the Battle of Waterloo (8) |
| CHARLIE | Bonnie Prince -; a nickname of the Young Pretender immortalised in the Skye Boat Song who led the Jacobite uprising but was defeated at the Battle of Culloden (7) |
| STARMER | Labour Party leader Keir could be smarter (7) |
| GUNNELL | Sally _, British athlete who won the gold medal in the 400m hurdles at the 1992 Olympics (7) |
| BAUMANN | see 48dn, German athlete who won the men's 5000m at the 1992 Olympics |
| CARRUTH | Whose gold medal at the 1992 Olympics was Ireland's first in 36 years? (7) |
| LILETEE | Upset winner at the 1992 Kentucky Derby |
| BEDROOM | Boredom defeated at retirement site (7) |
| PIPPEDATTHEPOST | Philip, quiet man, getting at the Pole defeated at the last moment (6,2,3,4) |
| DLII | Year the Ostrogoths were defeated at the Battle of Taginae |
| GATES | Horatio ?, British-born US general defeated at the Battle of Camden in 1780 (5) |
| EDWARDII | The king whose army was defeated at the Battle of Bannockburn (6,2) |
| NAPOLEAN | Which French general was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo (8) |
| GODWINSON | Harold ---, also called Harold II, defeated at the Battle of Hastings (9) |
| CLOSE | Figure to be defeated at the end of play |
| HAROLD | Anglo Saxon king defeated at the Battle of Hastings (6) |
| TOSTIG | Brother of Harold II, by whom he was defeated at the Battle of Stamford Bridge (6) |
| SALLYGUNNELL | British athlete who won the gold medal in the 400m hurdles at the 1992 Olympics (5,7) |
| LANSBURY | George, ex-Labour Party leader who edited the Daily Herald from 1913 to 1922 (8) |
