| HARPIST | Musician with history including activity during the Blitz (7) |
| HASTINGS | Seaside town and Cinque Port in East Sussex whose history, including its now-ruined Norman motte and bailey castle established by William the Conqueror in 1066, is stitched into the very fabric of the |
| RSPCA | Abbreviated name of a charity that has waged many successful campaigns over the course of its 200-year history, including outlawing the UK's alectryomancy, bear-baiting and dogfighting (1,1,1,1,1) |
| EASTEND | "I'm glad we've been bombed. It makes me feel I can look the ... in the face," said Queen Elizabeth referring to the Cockney area of London that had borne the brunt of the Blitz (4,3) |
| BLIGHTY | Get home in the Blitz via carrying torch (7) |
| INERTIA | Lack of activity during trip oddly constrained by time |
| POSTWAR | Port was rebuilt when the blitz was over (4-3) |
| AIRRAID | Event in the Blitz (3,4) |
| TUTORED | Assisted with history, say |
| NOCTURNAL | Small number before court, with lunar activity during the night (9) |
| STUNT | Dangerous activity during the filming of a movie |
| LONDONPRIDE | Patriotic Noel Coward song composed during the Blitz in 1941 (6,5) |
| LIT | Set on fire during the Blitz (3) |
| IRMA | Dog that won a medal for its rescue work during the Blitz (4) |
| SELMA | City in Alabama, a centre of activity during the 1960s civil rights movement (5) |
| HOPEANDGLORY | 1987 British comedy-drama-war film, written, produced and directed by John Boorman and based on his own experiences of growing up in London during the Blitz |
| AIRALERT | Warning during the Blitz |
| WATERLOO | This new London bridge built during the Blitz was officially opened on August 11, 1942 |
| ALLCLEAR | The siren signal that told the people in air-raid shelters during the Blitz that it was safe to emer |
| HEARTHQUAKE | Fireplace activity during seismic activity? |
