| KEEPCALM | Start of a British wartime slogan |
| DONNEDEAL | Start of a British poet's card game? |
| CHURCHILLIAN | Like a British wartime leader |
| LOOSELIPS | Things which, according to a wartime slogan, sink ships |
| DIGFORVICTORY | Appreciate Foreign Office chap's opening line in wartime slogan |
| SCAPA | British wartime naval base in the Orkney Islands of Scotland, ___ Flow |
| WINSTON | British wartime PM, ... Churchill |
| PAULNASH | British wartime landscape painter (4,4) |
| CARDIGAN | Top British wartime commander |
| CHURCHILL | Sir Winston ---, British wartime PM (9) |
| CROWNCOLONY | Type of administration of a British overseas territory, such as Hong Kong before the 1997 handover to the Peoples' Republic of China |
| EARLDOM | Rank and title of a British nobleman ranking below a marquess and above a viscount (7) |
| CHARLES | The name of a British king who ended up on the wrong side of a civil war |
| OLDBOY | Term for a former male pupil or alumnus of a British public school; or, an affectionate or familiar name used to refer to a fellow, gent or man (3,3) |
| KILOJOULE | Standard unit of measure for the energy value of food, equivalent to 0.9478 of a British thermal unit (BTU) (9) |
| ABSENCE | Lack of a British change of scene |
| GRENADIER | Member of a British regiment of the Household Brigade (9) |
| ZED | One of two parts of a British puzzle? |
| PITTTENURE | Term of office of a British prime minister? |
| VICTORIAN | Of the 19th century era of a British queen |