| MONTECASSINO | Site of a Benedictine monastery in central Italy accidentally destroyed by the Allies in 1944 |
| MONTE | Site of a Benedictine monastery in central Italy accidentally destroyed by the Allies in 1944 (5,7) |
| CASSINO | Site of a Benedictine monastery in central Italy accidentally destroyed by the Allies in 1944 (5,7) |
| CAEN | French port liberated by the Allies in 1944 |
| CLUNY | Town in central France, site of a Benedictine Abbey founded in 910 (5) |
| TRAPPISTSUNK | Result of a Benedictine losing at Battleship? |
| LIQUEURGLASS | The last thing one expects a Benedictine to go into (7,5) |
| ABBEY | Type of monastery such as the one on the island of Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy, or the former Benedictine monastery in Cluny, Burgundy (5) |
| BOCHE | Derogatory term, derived from the French for a German soldier, used by the Allies in the First World War (5) |
| BELSEN | Bergen-___, the Nazi concentration camp liberated by the Allies in April 1945 (6) |
| AMPLEFORTH | North Yorkshire village which is home to a Benedictine monastery and a Catholic public school |
| ALLIGATOR | Born in the US, moved to Berlin, admired by Hitler, bombed by the Allies, rescued by the British, moved to Moscow, died there in 2020, aged 84. What animal was Saturn? (9) |
| DOODLEBUG | A colloquial name used by the Allies for the V-1 flying bomb, launched from the North Coast of France from 1944 (9) |
| ORAN | City taken by the Allies in Nov. 1942 |
| SAFI | Moroccan port invaded by the Allies in WWII |
| LORIENT | French seaport taken by the Allies in May 1945 |
| TRIPOLI | City captured by the Allies in January 1943 |
| AXIS | Group fought by the Allies in World War II |
| MAGDALENECOLLEGE | Constituent part of the University of Cambridge founded in 1428 as a Benedictine hostel |
| FIDO | Developed by the Allies during the Second World War, a method of dispersing airfield fog by burning petrol to enable aircraft to land (4) |
