| WAITANGI | The Treaty of ___, 6 February 1840, between Britain and a number of Maori tribes, which effectively founded New Zealand (8) |
| VERSAILLES | The Treaty of ___ was signed at the end of World War I (10) |
| BRUNO | Old pugilist from Britain and a figure from Spain (5) |
| APACHES | Group of Native American tribes which mainly inhabited Arizona and New Mexico (7) |
| NIGERIA | Spice Girl embraced by part of UK and a foreign country (7) |
| ISTRIA | Peninsula once occupied by Illyrian tribes, which was part of 15 down after the Second World War (6) |
| CORINTHCANAL | Waterway which effectively makes the Peloponnese peninsula an island |
| OPERATIONDESERTSTORM | Campaign which effectively ended the Gulf War in 1991 |
| BATTLEOFNASEBY | Engagement which effectively ended the first English Civil War |
| JAMES | Author of The Portrait of a Lady and a number of ghost stories, including The Romance of Certain Old Clothes and The Turn of the Screw (5) |
| LIVELY | Author of Moon Tiger, The Road to Lichfield and a number of children's books, including A Stitch in Time and The Ghost of Thomas Kempe (6) |
| VANDAL | A member of a Germanic tribe which, in the 4th and 5th centuries A.D., invaded western Europe (6) |
| MARRYAT | Naval officer who developed a code of maritime flag signalling and wrote The Children of the New Forest and a number of sea stories (7) |
| TELFORD | Nicknamed the Colossus of Roads by Robert Southey, a builder of canals, churches, roads, aqueducts and a number of bridges including one spanning the Menai Strait (7) |
| WARSAWPACT | Defence treaty between the Soviet Union and a number of eastern bloc countries, signed in May 1955 (6,4) |
| BELGIC | Of a Celtic tribe which inhabited one of the Low Countries in Roman times (6) |
| TEKOOTI | Military leader and founder of the Ringatu religion who led a mass escape of Maori prisoners from the Chatham Islands in 1868 (2,5) |
| SPIRITLEVELS | They keep the House straight initially with whiskey and a number of stories (6,6) |
| CHARACTERISTICS | Eccentric is first to get fair amount of the basics and a number of the elements (15) |
| BISON | Member of the cattle tribe which was formerly widely distributed over the prairies of western North |
