| FORTAPACHE | Soldiers' base in the wars against Geronimo |
| FORTSPACHE | Soldiers' base in the wars against Geronimo |
| ELCID | Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, Castilian nobleman who became a Spanish national hero in the wars against the Moors |
| SALADIN | Muslim sultan who captured Jerusalem in the wars against Christian Crusaders (7) |
| BATTLEFIELD | In the war against pests, your garden could be said to be this! (11) |
| JEHOSAPHAT | Fourth King of Judah and ally of Ahab, in the war against Syria (10) |
| PRIAM | Who was king of Troy during the war against the Greeks? (5) |
| AMIS | Martin who wrote "The War Against Cliche" |
| HYDERALI | Sultan of Mysore who waged two wars against the British in India in the 18th century (5,3) |
| ATOLL | Coral island and surrounding reef such as Diego Garcia (used by the US as a air base in the Indian Ocean) and Mururoa (used by the French to test nuclear weapons in the Pacific) |
| YAP | Group of four islands in the Caroline Islands of the Pacific which were an important Japanese naval base in the Second World War (3) |
| PARASITE | Hanger-on in airborne soldiers' base? |
| TOWTON | The Battle of ___ in the Wars of the Roses in March, 1461 was the largest battle ever fought in Engl |
| NORTHOLT | Oldest RAF base in the UK that opened in Ruislip in 1915 (8) |
| BURNHAM | What is the name of the largest army base in the South Island? (7) |
| AWOL | Missing from the base, in the military: Abbr. |
| GITMO | Cuban base in the news, in brief |
| SCAMPI | Seafood is being brought back around soldiers' base (6) |
| INCOMETAX | Personal charge introduced in Britain by William Pitt the Younger in 1798 to help finance war against France (6,3) |
| SUESSIONES | Galba was king of this Belgic tribe during the Gallic Wars against Julius Caesar (10) |
