| SEAMER | The joiner finding both the British and French deep |
| OPIUMWAR | Second _ _, colonial conflict of 1856-60, between the British and French empires and the Qing dynasty of China (5,3) |
| ARABIA | A large peninsular region that was mainly under Ottoman control until a revolt, assisted by the British and French governments, during the First World War (6) |
| SAINTHELENA | Island popular with the British and French lying within South Africa and Namibia's borders |
| APPEASEMENT | Term used to describe the ineffectual response of the British and French governments to Hitler's expansionist policies (11) |
| SYPHILIS | What disease was called "the French disease" by the British and Germans, "the Neapolitan disease" by the French, "the Polish disease" by the Russians and "the German disease" by the Polish? (8) |
| SHAKESPEARE | Writer of a comedy featuring Bottom the weaver, Flute the bellows-mender, Quince the carpenter, Snout the tinker, Snug the joiner and Starveling the tailor, who perform the play-within-the-play (11) |
| BRONZE | British and French XI - and the third? (6) |
| SNUG | Name of the joiner in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream who plays the lion in Pyramus and Thisbe (4) |
| INKERMAN | 1854 battle during the Crimean War in which British and French forces defeated the Russians (8) |
| SCREW | It's used by the joiner in making the propeller (5) |
| UNIFIER | Fruit machine that can't match the efforts of the joiner (7) |
| ANGLO | ----- French: English or British and French (5) |
| KHYBER | The ... Pass through the Hindu Kush range was scene of bitter fighting between the British and Afghans from 1878-80 (6) |
| ISLES | The British and the Greek, e.g. |
| SQUIRREL | "Her chariot is an empty hazelnut / Made by the joiner ____" (Mercutio, in Romeo and Juliet) |
| LION | As which Snug the joiner was a roaring success |
| ANDBIT | Boring combination for the joiner (3,3) |
| BRACE | Boring combination for the joiner (5) |
| BRONZES | British and French, 11 small works of art (7) |
