| STALAGS | Prisoner-of-war camps |
| STALAG | Type of German World War II prisoner-of-war camp especially for non-commissioned officers and other |
| OFLAG | Type of German prisoner-of-war camp for captured enemy officers, chiefly used during World War II (5) |
| COLDITZ | World War Two prisoner-of-war camp (7) |
| KINGRAT | 1962 debut novel by James Clavell, set in a World War II prisoner of war camp (4,3) |
| STALAGLUFT | ___III, World War II prisoner-of-war camp that held captured Allied air force personnel (6,4) |
| HEROES | Hogan's -, sitcom set in a prisoner of war camp (6) |
| NORMANCROSS | --- --- Prison, the world's first purpose-built prisoner-of-war camp, built in Cambridgeshire in 1796-97 (6,5) |
| CULTYBRAGGAN | Former prisoner of war camp located in Perthshire (12) |
| POWER | Might of monarch supporting prisoner of war |
| NEAVE | Airey, first British prisoner of war to escape from Colditz Castle in World War II (5) |
| BADER | Douglas ---, World War II RAF fighter ace who was a prisoner of war in Colditz from 1942-45 (5) |
| POWDERED | Prisoner of war ordered, in absence of other ranks, to ground (8) |
| THEGREATESCAPE | 1963 war film starring Steve McQueen as a U.S. prisoner of war (3,5,6) |
| STAR | Post-war, prisoner of war was extracted and became a famous person (4) |
| OVERPOWERING | Concluded with prisoner of war giving sweetheart item of jewellery - it's unbearable |
| POWWOW | Meeting prisoner of war - how amazing! |
| POW | ' prisoner of war' |
| INTERNEE | Certain prisoner of war |
| OWNSUP | Admits prisoner-of-war, sun-scattered (4,2) |
