| OVERLORD | Operation _, the code name for the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944 (8) |
| MOONSHOT | Operation __, the Johnson government's early name for its mass COVID testing (8) |
| PLUTO | During WWII, what was the code name for "pipe lines under the ocean", which were fuel lines under the Channel? (5) |
| SYRACUSE | It was the chief city of Sicily for the ancient Greeks. It was settled about 734 BCE by Corinthians, and its history is a long story of invasions and conflict, including the Allied invasion of 1943. I |
| OPERATIONOVERLORD | Codename for the Allied invasion of northern France in June 1944 (9,8) |
| OPERATIONHUSKY | Code name for the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943 |
| LONGEST | Epic retelling of the Allied invasion of Normandy during WWII, The ... Day |
| AMPHIBIOUSASSAULT | D-day, June 6th, 1944 - The Allied invasion of Germany-occupied Normandy on the French coast was the largest of its kind in history: 2 wds. |
| UTAHBEACH | Code name for the westernmost point of the Allied landings during the D-Day invasion of Normandy |
| THELONGESTDAY | 1962 U.S. epic war film about the Allied invasion of Normandy (3,7,3) |
| DDAY | Name for the start of the Allied invasion of Europe in WWII (1-3) |
| THEFEW | Name for the Allied airmen of the Royal Air Force who fought the Battle of Britain in the Second Wor |
| SEINEMARITIME | Northernmost of the five departments making up the region of Normandy in NW France (5-8) |
| BARBAROSSA | Code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 |
| ROLLO | Norse chieftain made the first duke of Normandy in 911 by arrangement with the Frankish king Charles the Simple (5) |
| ORNE | Department in the region of Normandy in NW France; capital: Alencon (4) |
| SEALION | Operation ___ ___: code name for the German plan to invade Britain in 1940 (3,4) |
| JUNE | The D-Day landings in Normandy in 1944 took place in this month (4) |
| SOHAM | Cambridgeshire location of ammunitions train disaster in June 1944 (5) |
| STLO | Battle site in Normandy in '44 called 'Capital of the Ruins' |
