| MAGNETICNORTH | Novel by Sue Prideaux set during the First World War (8,5) |
| FERDINANDFOCH | French commander-in-chief of Allied forces during the First World War (9,4) |
| BIRDSONG | Novel by Sebastian Faulks set during the First World War (8) |
| ARMS | A Farewell to _. 1929 novel by Ernest Hemingway set during the First World War (4) |
| ALONGLONGWAY | Sebastian Barry novel set during the First World War. (1,4,4,3) |
| AFAREWELLTOARMS | Ernest Hemingway novel set during the First World War (1,8,2,4) |
| TRIPOLIHARBOR | North African coastal area that served as a naval battleground during the First Barbary War (Hawaii) |
| THREEKINGS | 1999 film starring George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg and Ice Cube, set during the First Gulf War (5,5) |
| POPPY | Wild flower with a species synonymous with remembering those who died during the First World War, depicted on the coat of arms of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (5) |
| ARABIA | A large peninsular region that was mainly under Ottoman control until a revolt, assisted by the British and French governments, during the First World War (6) |
| RASTA | Society founded during the First World War that set up the Cycling Proficiency Test in 1947 (5) |
| QSHIPS | Heavily-armed decoy vessels used by the British during the First World War to lure German U-boats into traps (1-5) |
| ALLIED | The major ones during the First World War were Great Britain (and its empire), France and the Russian empire (6) |
| PARTRIDGE | Grey -; gathering on the ground in a covey, a farmland game bird that thrived on the Western Front in no-man's-land during the First World War (9) |
| SAINTMIHIEL | The battle of ____ was America's first major offensive in France during the First World War |
| VIMY | The Battle of --- Ridge, part of the Battle of Arras during the First World War (4) |
| RUSSELL | Which Nobel Laureate was one of the founders of analytical philosophy and as an anti-war activist was imprisoned during the First World War? (7) |
| SASSOON | Siegfried _, poet who wrote satirical anti-war verse during the First World War (7) |
| SHELLSHOCK | Coined during the First World War, a name for the condition commonly abbreviated as PTSD |
| HAIG | Commander-in-chief of the British forces in France during the First World War |
