| ROADER | Middle-of-the-___ (a moderate) |
| AMERICAS | Protesters demanded the closing of School of the ___, a training center for Latin American soldiers |
| IGUANA | The Night of the ___ , a stage play by Tennessee Williams later adapted as a 1964 film starring Richard Burton (6) |
| BULGE | Battle of the ___, a.k.a. Ardennes Offensive |
| REALM | Coin of the ___ (a country's money) |
| ROAD | Middle-of-the-__ (moderate) |
| EARTH | Journey to the Centre of the _, Jules Verne novel (5) |
| ATOM | "The Ghost in the ___: A Discussion of the Mysteries of Quantum Physics" |
| BAHAMAS | The _, a group of coral islands in the Caribbean, the capital of which is Nassau (7) |
| STOPS | Gather In The ___: A trading strategy of driving down a stock's price by selling large amounts of st |
| BATTKEOFLIFE | The ___: A Love Story; the fourth in order of the five Christmas books by Charles Dickens (6,2,4) |
| NECK | A pain in the ___ : a bother or a cause of irritation? |
| PURPOSEOF | "The ___ a man is to love a woman" (lyric from the 1965 hit "Game of Love") |
| SHOEMAKER | The Elves and the _; a set of tales collected by the Brothers Grimm (9) |
| ROSIE | Ring-a-round the ___ a pocket full of posies... |
| CUBANHEELS | Shoe components raising the back of the foot to a moderate height |
| WHET | Excite a moderate conservative by the sound of it (4) |
| OLDCONTEMPTIBLES | The ____, a nickname for the British Expeditionary Force, based on a description attributed to Kaiser Wilhelm II |
| BRONX | The_, a mainland borough of New York City, separated from Manhattan by the Harlem River (5) |
| CHEVIOTS | The ____ , a range of rolling hills straddling the England-Scotland border (8) |
