| POITIERS | The site of a battle in 1356 in which Edward, the Black Prince, defeated the French (8) |
| NONSENSE | Type of verse in which Edward Lear specialised (8) |
| JOAN | Known as the Fair Maid of Kent, the forename of the wife of Edward the Black Prince who was the mother of Richard II (4) |
| JANEEYRE | Novel published in 1847 in which Edward Rochester appears (4,4) |
| STONE | In which Edward Norton was a convicted arsonist (5) |
| EASTCAPE | What is the easternmost point on the North Island of New Zealand, the site of a battle in the 1865 Maori Wars? (4,4) |
| NAVARINO | Historical name for the town of Pylos in Greece, site of a battle involving the Royal Navy in 1827 (8) |
| PHILIPPA | ____ of Hainault, queen consort of England 1328-1369, and mother of the Black Prince (8) |
| EDWARD | King of England whose army defeated the French force under Philip Vi at the Battle of Crecy, where his son the Black Prince acquired the emblem of three white feathers (6) |
| INVICTAS | Cars like the Black Prince and the 4A litre S-Type (8) |
| LEWES | County town of East Sussex near the site of a battle in which the younger Simon de Montfort defeated Henry III in May, 1264 (5) |
| CRECY | Village in France that was the scene of the first decisive battle of the Hundred Years' War when the English defeated the French in 1346 |
| ABOUKIRBAY | Site of the Battle of the Nile in which Nelson defeated the French (7,3) |
| BELLEAU | --- Wood, forest in France, site of a battle in 1918 in which U.S. Marines halted a German advance (7) |
| ISSUS | Town in Asia Minor, scene of a battle in 333 BC in which Alexander the Great defeated the Persians (5) |
| MALDON | Market town on the Blackwater estuary in Essex noted for salt that was the site of a battle in 991 described in an Old English poem (6) |
| STAMFORDBRIDGE | Village in East Riding of Yorkshire, site of a battle in 1066 (8,6) |
| AGINCOURT | Scene of a 1415 battle in which Henry V's army defeated the French, anagram of RACING OUT (9) |
| RAMILLIES | Village in Belgium where the Duke of Marlborough defeated the French in a 1706 battle (9) |
| AUSTERLITZ | Town now in the Czech Republic, site of a battle in 1805 (10) |
