| GDANSK | Polish port disputed before the Second World War |
| EYE | The calm before the second half of the storm |
| ENSURES | Guarantees the sun will be out before the second round (7) |
| TIGHTLY | Before the second half of July close very firmly |
| WAYWARDLY | Direction minor takes before the second half of July capriciously |
| PRESTO | Quickly, before the second gets to! (6) |
| REVERE | Venerate a clergyman before the second half (6) |
| UTNEREADER | Progressive bimonthly, before the second word was dropped from its title |
| DANZIG | The German name for the Polish port Gdansk (6) |
| WROCLAW | Industrial Polish port on the River Oder (7) |
| RUBLE | Polish port near key foreign capital (5) |
| GDYNIA | Polish port, neighbour of Gdansk (6) |
| WAAFS | Abbreviation of the titles of the members of the female auxiliary of the RAF during the Second World War (5) |
| BULGE | The battle of the ___ was Germany's last (unsuccessful) major offensive on the western front of the Second World War (5) |
| ABWEHR | The German military intelligence service from the early 1920s to the end of the Second World War (6) |
| LEASELEND | Act (1941) allowing the USA to provide war materials, etc, to the Allies in the Second World War (5-4) |
| THEFEW | Name for the Allied airmen of the Royal Air Force who fought the Battle of Britain in the Second World War |
| COLDWAR | The state of political hostility between the West and the Soviet Bloc after the Second World War (4,3) |
| ERIC | Mr Mcpherson, the first Australian to compete in the TT after the Second World War, after helping to form the Motor Cycle Racing Club of New South Wales during it. (4) |
| IWOJIMA | Island in the West Pacific that was the scene of prolonged fighting between Japan and the US in the Second World War (3,4) |
