| PUNIC | Name applied to the three wars between Rome and Carthage, ending in 146 BC (5) |
| SAINT | Name applied to Class 47 in the 1990s to mark the 1,400th anniversary of the death of famous Iona resident (5, 7) |
| OPIUM | Which narcotic lent its name to 19th century wars between China and Britain? (5) |
| GHENT | Flanders city where the treaty ending the war between Britain and the US was signed in 1814 (5) |
| WHELK | Name applied to a number of marine gastropods, especially species of the genus Buccinum (5) |
| FINCH | Common name applied to many small passerine songbirds of the family Fringillidae (canaries, linnets, siskins etc.) (5) |
| ACHAIA | Before the Roman conquest in 146 BCE, what was the name given to a strip of land between the Gulf of Corinth in the north and Elis and Arcadia in the south? (6) |
| LURIE | Pulitzer-winning professor who penned Don't Tell the Grown-ups, The War Between the Tates, books for children and also edited The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales (5) |
| LABEL | Name applied to something (5) |
| ANDES | Home to the three highest capital cities in the world |
| AFTER | Twenty Years ---, 1845 novel by Alexandre Dumas; a sequel to The Three Musketeers (5) |
| IQBAL | see 22dn, Pakistan Test cricketer who hit 146 against England at the Oval in 1967 (4,5) |
| PUNICWARS | The Roman destruction of Carthage in 146 BC brought an end to these conflicts (5,4) |
| ERICA | Botanical name applied to many species of heather |
| TREES | The ---, a Rush song about a war between oaks and maples (5) |
| LUCAN | Roman poet whose Pharsalia describes the civil war between Caesar and Pompey (5) |
| AWARE | Conscious of war between the capitals of Albania and Estonia (5) |
| ENEMY | Richelieu, to the Three Musketeers |
| EBRO | River that was the ancient dividing line between Rome and Carthage |
| CORINTH | City state destroyed in 146 BC by Roman general Lucius Mummius in the process of defeating the Achaean League (7) |
