| MATAHARI | Stage name of a Dutch exotic dancer executed as a German spy in World War I |
| ATTILA | ____ the Stockbroker is the stage name of a British punk poet |
| MATA | ___ Hari, the exotic dancer executed as a German spy in France during WWI |
| KIEL | German canal connecting the North Sea to the Baltic Sea. Also the name of a city which witnessed a German sailors' mutiny in World War I. |
| SELLE | French river in Picardy that was the site of the battle between Julius Caesar and the Nervians in 57 BC as well as a 1918 battle in World War I |
| PAULNASH | English painter born in 1889 who was a war artist in World War I and World War II (4,4) |
| SURINAM | Former or alternative spelling of the name of a Dutch-speaking South American country (7) |
| HARI | See 6 Down, Dutch dancer who was executed as a German spy in 1917 (4,4) |
| SECONDBATTLEOFYPRES | Canada distinguished itself in action in World War I in Belgium in 1915 in the ___ ___ ___ ___ |
| HIDEKITOJO | Japanese prime minister 1941-44; executed as a war criminal in 1948 (6,4) |
| YPRES | A town in Belgium; the scene of many battles in World War I (5) |
| OFLAG | German prisoner-of-war camp for officers established in World War I (5) |
| VIMYRIDGE | Battle of ?, conflict in April, 1917 that saw a decisive Allied victory in World War I |
| FLANDERS | Powerful medieval principality in the SW part of the Low Countries; scene of many battles in World War I (8) |
| HAIG | Commander-in-Chief of British forces in France in World War I (4) |
| RAEDER | Surname of the German admiral and Chief of Staff to Hipper, in World War I (6) |
| MUSTARDGAS | Name commonly given to an organosulfur carcinogen widely used as a weapon in World War I (7,3) |
| ZEEBRUGGE | Port in N.W. Belgium which was a German submarine base in World War I (9) |
| PIET | First name of a Dutch "abstract geometrist" |
| AFRIKANER | Build a finer ark for a descendant of a Dutch settler (9) |
