| FORTMACKINAC | Old military outpost that served as a battle site during the War of 1812 (Michigan) |
| ORLEANS | City in north central France, a battle site during the Hundred Years War (7) |
| ANTIETAM | Maryland battle site during the Civil War |
| GIBRALTAR | British outpost that is home to the last population of Barbary Macaques in Europe |
| PILLBOXHAT | Fashion accessory in outpost that lost initial character |
| CONSULATE | Diplomatic outpost that might be confused with an embassy |
| MIR | The name of the Soviet/Russian modular space station that served as a versatile space laboratory for more than 14 years, starting in 1986, before ground controllers forced it down into the Pacific Oce |
| TRIPOLIHARBOR | North African coastal area that served as a naval battleground during the First Barbary War (Hawaii) |
| DUPIN | Edgar Allan Poe's fictional detective that served as a prototype for a genre of investigators, C Aug |
| GLEBE | From Latin for "clod", a plot of land attached to a parish church that served as part of a clergyman's benefice; or, a poetic word for fields or the soil (5) |
| YORKIST | Term for a supporter of one of the branches of the royal house of Plantagenet during the Wars of the |
| WARWICK | 16th Earl of -; title of Richard Neville the "Kingmaker", a Yorkist turned Lancastrian during the Wars of the Roses who was killed at the Battle of Barnet (7) |
| SALYUT | The name for any of a series of Soviet space stations (of two designs), launched between 1971 and 1982, that served as living quarters and scientific laboratories or military reconnaissance platforms. |
| STEPHENS | St -, ancient chapel in the old Palace of Westminster that served as the House of Commons (8) |
| MARENGO | Name of a battle during the War of the Second Coalition commemorated in the painting Napoleon Crossing the Alps by Jacques-Louis David (7) |
| AGORA | Open square that served as a meeting place or market in an ancient Greek city |
| OVALTINE | Chocolate malt drink mix that served as a bit for Bania's stand-up comedy act in "Seinfeld" |
| UTAH | State that served as a filming location for "Touched by an Angel" |
| AGRA | City of northern India that served as capital of the Mughal empire under such leaders as Shah Jahan (4) |
| STORMONT | Belfast castle that served as the official residence of the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland from 1921 to 1972 (8) |
