| CALVI | Nelson lost an eye during a siege of this Corsican seaport in 1794 |
| ALAMO | Texas fort held by Davy Crockett in a siege of 1836 (5) |
| DAYAN | He lost an eye in 1941 |
| NELSON | Horatio, British naval hero who lost sight in his right eye during the siege of Calvi in Corsica in 1794 (6) |
| ISITOVER | Question from someone covering their eyes during a scary part of a movie |
| ISITOVERYET | Question from someone covering their eyes during a scary part of a movie |
| GLAZEDOVER | Like eyes during a boring speech |
| OCULAR | Performed by eye during period of jocularity (6) |
| TREBUCHET | Giant medieval catapult used for firing large stones during a siege (9) |
| MENOFHARLECH | Welsh song and military march describing events during a siege between 1461 and 1468 |
| ALESIA | The siege of this fortified settlement led to Julius Caesar's final defeat of the Gauls (6) |
| KHARTOUM | General Gordon died at the siege of this African city |
| LENINGRAD | Siege of this Soviet city lasted for almost 900 days (9) |
| ADVISO | Recommending protection for eyes during stormy day |
| SAMBROWNE | Military belt with a strap over the shoulder - it was named after its inventor, an officer of the British Army in India who lost an arm in the 1858 Mutiny (3,6) |
| JACKNEWTON | Australian golfer who lost an arm and an eye in a 1983 propeller accident (4,6) |
| LIVRE | A former French unit of money of account, discontinued in 1794 (5) |
| COTTON | Back in 1794, Eli Whitney changed America by inventing an engine (or "gin") which could separate the fibers of this fluffy, white crop from its seeds |
| ODESSA | Ukrainian city, founded in 1794 by a decree of Catherine the Great (6) |
| OBAN | Ferry port in the West Coast (pop about 9,000), with a distillery founded in 1794 (4) |
