| LONGESTDAY | Paul Anka has a role in this epic 1962 war picture about the Normandy Landings of WWII, with The: 2 wds. |
| THELONGESTDAY | 1962 film about the Normandy landings, starring John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Sean Connery and Richard Burton (3,7,3) |
| HOWTHEWESTWASWON | Epic 1962 Western which follows four generations of a family as they move from New York state to the Pacific Ocean |
| LAWRENCEOFARABIA | Epic 1962 film |
| NUN | Deborah Kerr played a ... stranded on a Japanese-occupied Pacific island in WWII with marine Robert Mitchum in Heaven Knows, Mr Allison |
| NATO | Military alliance formed after WWII with its HQ in Brussels (4) |
| PITCAIRN | Island in the South Pacific, part of a UK Overseas Territory; uninhabited until the landing of the mutineers of the Bounty in 1790 (8) |
| DAY | 1962 war film, a 1963 Best Picture Oscar nominee, about the 1944 D-Day invasion of Normandy (3,7,3) |
| THELONGEST | 1962 war film, a 1963 Best Picture Oscar nominee, about the 1944 D-Day invasion of Normandy (3,7,3) |
| QUOVADIS | Peter Ustinov, as the emperor Nero, goes mad and burns Rome and a lot of Christians in this epic (3, |
| SPITFIRES | Fighters flown by the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Normandy Landings, keeping the skies clear of enemy planes |
| OMAHA | Codename for one of the Normandy landing sites for the Allies on D-Day in WWII (5) |
| RUNWAY | A catwalk; a chute or flume for conveying logs; a track made by a small animal under snow or in grass, e.g.; or, a type of airstrip for the take-off and landing of aircraft (6) |
| MARINER | Complete the title of this epic poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient ___ (7) |
| STAGG | Group Captain James ___, Met Office meteorologist who persuaded Dwight D. Eisenhower to change the date of the Normandy landings (5) |
| BENNETT | Winner of Big Brother series 7 who has a role in The Nan Movie (4,7) |
| PETE | Winner of Big Brother series 7 who has a role in The Nan Movie (4,7) |
| THERAPEUTICAL | Article with a picture about central characters in Health concerned with the healing process (13) |
| SPLASHDOWN | Landing of a spacecraft in the sea at the end of a space flight (10) |
| CAVIL | In this epic, a village gets hypercritical censure (5) |
