| NOTT | Sir John ___, secretary of state for defence at the time of the Falklands war (4) |
| LORDCHALFONT | Alun Arthur Gwynne Jones, 100, Foreign and Commonwealth Office minister at the time of the Falklands War (4,8) |
| MARTELLO | Small circular fort used by Britain for coastal defence at the time of the Napoleonic Wars (8) |
| HOON | Geoff ___, Secretary of State for Defence from 1999-2005 (4) |
| BENN | Hilary ___, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2007-10 (4) |
| GOVE | Michael ___, Secretary of State for Education from 2010-14 (4) |
| HAIN | Peter ___, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 2005-2007 (4) |
| HURT | Sir John _, English actor who starred in the 1980 film The Elephant Man (4) |
| SPEE | German vice admiral killed in W.W. I's Battle of the Falklands |
| HAIG | Alexander ___, secretary of state under Reagan |
| ISLE | Any of the Falklands |
| PROFUMO | John ___, Secretary of State for War from 1960-63 (7) |
| WHITTINGDALE | John ___, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport from 2015 (12) |
| REDWOOD | John ___, Secretary of State for Wales from 1993-95 (7) |
| DOAK | William N. ___ (Secretary of Labor, 1930-33) (4) |
| BUCKLAND | Sir Robert __, secretary of state for Wales (at the time of writing) (8) |
| STONEWALL | Civil War general Thomas Jonathan Jackson earned this nickname for his unflinching defence at the Battle of Bull Run |
| FOUGHTBACK | Did some self-defence at the rear of the keep, say? (6,4) |
| GOOSE | & 18D Battle of -, May, 1982 conflict of the Falklands War (5,5) |
| GALTIERI | President of Argentina forced to resign after his mishandling of the Falklands War (8) |
