| EDINBURGHCASTLE | Scottish landmark, scene of battles and sieges for 500 years (9,6) |
| AUROCH | Cattle species, Bos primigenius, wild ancestor of modem domestic cattle, extinct for 500 years (6) |
| SNOW | Historian who wrote the 2012 book Battle Castles: 500 Years of Knights and Siege Warfare |
| WARBLED | Sang of battles, and showed injury |
| YPRES | Scene of battles in Belgium in 1914, 1915 and 1917 (5) |
| TYR | Norse god of battle, and Tuesday's namesake |
| BEDOFROSES | "For marriage is like life in this - that it is a field of battle, and not a ___ _ ___": Robert Louis Stevenson (3,2,5) |
| TENYEARS | Troy withstood a Greek siege for how many years? |
| LENIN | The city named for this early Bolshevik leader was under German siege for 900 days until Russian tro |
| ALTHORP | Ancestral Northamptonshire seat of the Spencer family for some 500 years including its ninth earl, Charles, younger brother of Diana, Princess of Wales (7) |
| ARTHURSSEAT | Scottish landmark which Robert Louis Stevenson called "A hill for magnitude, a mountain in virtue of its bold design" |
| RITESOFPASSAGE | Sieges of Sparta viewed as landmark events (5,2,7) |
| BOERWAR | Conflict that saw the sieges of Ladysmith and Kimberley |
| DOLOMITES | Old battles and old scraps in the mountains (9) |
| TABLETS | They change battles, and may commemorate them (7) |
| KNEBWORTH | Village in Hertfordshire, site of a Gothic Revival house that was the seat of the Lytton family, including writer Edward, for some 500 years (9) |
| OLDER | It's a role for 500 of more advanced years (5) |
| LANARK | Scottish landmark with a bit missing (6) |
| ROYALMILE | Two chaps running event in Scottish landmark (5,4) |
| CRECY | Scene of the first decisive battle of the Five Hundred Years' War (5) |
