| MYTILENE | Naval battle of the Peloponnesian War fought in 406 BC (8) |
| EURIPIDES | Greek dramatist (c 480 - c 406 BC) who wrote Medea (431 BC) (9) |
| LYSANDER | Spartan naval commander of the Peloponnesian war who died in 395 BC (8) |
| XENOPHON | Greek historian whose Hellenica chronicled the end of the Peloponnesian War (8) |
| TCYDIDES | Athenian general who wrote "History of the Peloponnesian War" |
| SPIONKOP | Battle of --- ---, military engagement of the Second Boer War, fought in January 1900 (5,3) |
| SPARTANS | The principal opponents of Athens in the Peloponnesian war |
| PERICLES | Leader in Ancient Greece during the Peloponnesian War (8) |
| TSUSHIMA | Naval battle of 1905, in which Japan inflicted a heavy defeat on the Russian fleet (8) |
| NAVARINO | Turkish defeat in this naval battle of October 1827 consolidated Greek independence (8) |
| EDGEHILL | Pitched battle of the English Civil War fought between some 15,000 Parliamentarians and 14,000 Royalists on October 23, 1642 (8) |
| BORODINO | Bloody battle of the Napoleonic Wars fought 70 miles west of Moscow on September 7 1812 |
| AREACODE | 406, for the entire state of Montana |
| SPARTA | Winner of the Peloponnesian War (6) |
| GETTYSBURG | Battle of -, conflict of the American Civil War fought in July, 1863 (10) |
| SHILOH | Second great battle of the American Civil War, fought in Tennessee in 1862 (6) |
| SALAMANCA | Key battle of the Peninsular War, fought in Spain in 1812 (9) |
| CLASSICALGREECE | Period of the Peloponnesian Wars |
| ALCIBIADES | Athenian statesman and general in the Peloponnesian War who defected to the Spartans in 415, but returned and led the victories at Abydos and Cyzicus |
| IRELAND | Near which country were the "Cod Wars" fought in the late 1950s? (7) |
