| YALTA | Site of a major conference in 1945 |
| SYMPOSIUM | My opus is played at start of major conference (9) |
| POTSDAM | Shoot commercials over by entrance to major conference venue |
| TRUMAN | Which US president attended the Potsdam Conference in 1945? (6) |
| PASSERO | Cape ___ , a promontory in southern Sicily, the site of a major sea battle in 1718 (7) |
| TSUSHIMA | The ... Strait was the site of a major naval battle in May 1905 in the Russo-Japanese War (8) |
| YPRES | Belgian (Flanders) municipality, the site of a major WWI battle - and a variety of Primula auricula (5) |
| NASEBY | Northamptonshire village that was the site of a major Parliamentarian victory in the Civil War in 1645 (6) |
| ORGREAVE | Village in South Yorkshire whose colliery was the site of a major confrontation between miners and police officers in 1984 |
| GUADALCANAL | One of the Solomon Islands noted as the site of a major Allied offensive against Japan in 1942-43 (11) |
| MILDENHALL | Suffolk town, site of a major hoard of fourth-century Roman silver tableware discovered in 1942 |
| BATAAN | City in the Philippines, site of a major battle of 1942 (6) |
| BHOPAL | City in India, site of a major chemical leak in 1984 (6) |
| SARATOGA | Site of a major American victory in the Revolutionary War |
| JAVASEA | Site of a major WWII naval battle in 1942 |
| REDSEA | Site of a major part of the Bible? |
| COLINPOWELL | Secretary of state who sang a version of "Y.M.C.A." (dressed as the construction worker) at a 2004 conference in Indonesia |
| CALLANISH | Village in Lewis, the site of a major standing stone circle (8) |
| RAVENSCRAIG | New town in North Lanarkshire, previously the site of a major steelworks (11) |
| MARENGO | Site of a major battle (1800), where a French army defeated an Austrian one (7) |
