| MARSTONMOOR | Site of a decisive battle in the English Civil War (7,4) |
| TEWKESBURY | Gloucestershire town, the scene of a decisive battle in the Wars of the Roses |
| ALAMEIN | Town in northern Egypt, the site of a decisive battle in 1942 (7) |
| ONTHE | Gloucestershire market town, site in spring 1646 of a decisive battle of the Civil War (4-2-3-4) |
| STOW | Gloucestershire market town, site in spring 1646 of a decisive battle of the Civil War (4-2-3-4) |
| WOLD | Gloucestershire market town, site in spring 1646 of a decisive battle of the Civil War (4-2-3-4) |
| SARATOGA | Site of a decisive battle of 1777 |
| WATERLOO | Terminal on, track, as site of a decisive battle (8) |
| CRECY | The site of a decisive English victory over the French in the first decade of the Hundred Years' War (5) |
| NASEBY | Site of a decisive Royalist defeat in the English Civil War on 14 June 1645 (6) |
| EDGEHILL | Site in Warwickshire of a 1642 battle in the English Civil War (8) |
| CROMWELLIAN | (Supporter) of the Puritan side in the English Civil Wars (11) |
| GARBAGETIME | "Throwaway" period towards the end of a decisive victory |
| BOSWORTHFIELD | Last, decisive battle in the Wars of the Roses (8,5) |
| MARSTON | Scene of a 1644 battle in the English Civil War (7) |
| MOOR | Scene of a 1644 battle in the English Civil War (4) |
| HASTINGS | The decisive battle in the 2/5 (8) |
| ENDOR | Site of a decisive "Return of the Jedi" battle |
| ALAMO | Decisive battle in the Texas Revolution (5) |
| ELALAMEIN | North African site of a decisive Second World War battle |
