| HOLDSOUT | Maintains resistance though fortress is in the open (5,3) |
| ALFRESCO | Nearly all the painting on plaster is in the open air (2,6) |
| ACCURSED | Wretched defendant maintains resistance (8) |
| FREELY | Touchy companion maintains resistance without limit |
| BLOODYMARY | Drink? Rare politician maintains resistance (6,4) |
| SRILANKA | The Sigiriya rock fortress is part of a Unesco world heritage site in this country (3,5) |
| METAPHOR | "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God," e.g. |
| OSLO | City whose Akershus Fortress is partially re-created in Epcot's Norway Pavilion |
| SIEGE | The type of mentality you develop when your fortress is surrounded and your supplies are cut off - a |
| CHORALE | "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God," e.g. |
| MIGHTY | "A ___ Fortress Is Our God" |
| HYMN | "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God," for one |
| ACROPOLIS | Fortress is a place to keep grain back after harvest (9) |
| OUR | A Mighty Fortress Is ___ God (hymn) |
| CREASING | Not continuing to maintain resistance, crumpling |
| HOLDOUT | Maintain resistance, having sunk putt, we hear (4,3) |
| CORSET | Stays firm, determined to maintain resistance |
| BOUNDARY | IBC = International ___ Commission (Founded in 1908, it overlooks and maintains the line that separates Canada and the United States) |
| STRAINER | In a farm fence, what large post maintains the tension of the wires? (8) |
| KEEPSFIT | Maintains health of The Castle's leaders frozen in time (5,3) |
