| FROISSART | Medieval historian whose Chronicles chart the events of the Hundred Years' War including the accession of Edward III, the Battle of Crecy and the Peasants' Revolt (9) |
| VICI | Accessi, crevi, "superavi" - Caesar's tricolon was alliterative (4) |
| YPRES | Nicknamed "Wipers" by British troops, Belgian town that was the site of three battles of the First World War including one during the Race to the Sea (5) |
| NAVY | The whole body of the nation's ships of war, including crews, maintenance systems, etc |
| ANNALIST | A medieval historian who created brief chronological lists of events (8) |
| BILBO | Hobbit who found the One Ring, setting in motion the events of The Lord of the Rings |
| REAPING | "Sunrise on the ___" (novel set 24 years before the events of "The Hunger Games") |
| CRECY | Village in France that was the scene of the first decisive battle of the Hundred Years' War when the English defeated the French in 1346 |
| ANDROMACHE | Athenian tragedy by Euripides that dramatises the heroine's life as a slave after the events of the Trojan War |
| ANNAL | A register of the events of the year by Anne and Albert |
| AGINCOURT | One of the best-known battles of the Hundred Years' War, famous for its widespread use of the Iongbow (9) |
| DISCUS | One of the events of the ancient Greek pentathlon (6) |
| RELATE | Give an account of: - the events of the day |
| ONEBC | Shortly before the events of the New Testament |
| AQUITAINE | Historical region of south-west France ruled by England's kings from 1154 to the end of the Hundred Years' War (9) |
| ORLEANS | French city liberated from the English by Joan of Arc on 8 May 1429 as part of the Hundred Years War (7) |
| CLASSICS | Greek and Latin studies; or, the five events of the flat race season including the Oaks (8) |
| ATWORST | In the event of the utmost calamity a couple are reportedly stumped (2,5) |
| THIRDAGE | 3021- year historical period during which the events of J R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings took place (5,3) |
| COOK | Commander of the ship Endeavour who set sail with his crew to Tahiti in 1768 to chart the transit of Venus across the Sun (4) |
