| CRECY | The site of a decisive English victory over the French in the first decade of the Hundred Years' War (5) |
| AGINCOURT | 1415 battle, a decisive English victory over the French (9) |
| NASEBY | Site of a decisive English Civil War battle of 1645 |
| HASTINGS | Decisive English battle in 1066 (8) |
| TENAD | End of the first decade of the common era |
| OUGHTS | Possible name for the first decade of the century |
| FROISSART | Medieval historian whose Chronicles chart the events of the Hundred Years' War including the accession of Edward III, the Battle of Crecy and the Peasants' Revolt (9) |
| VIGO | Port in Galicia, NW Spain, that was the site of a British and Dutch naval victory over the French and Spanish in 1702 (4) |
| TEWKESBURY | Market town in Gloucestershire, site of a decisive 1471 battle in the Wars of the Roses (10) |
| ORLEANS | French city liberated from the English by Joan of Arc on 8 May 1429 as part of the Hundred Years War (7) |
| RODNEY | George ?, British admiral; victor over the French in the Battle of the Saintes of 1782 |
| JUANMANUELFANGIO | Driver from Argentina who dominated the first decade of Formula One racing (4,6,6) |
| WOLFE | General James ____ died in the hour of victory, over the French at Quebec in 1759 |
| THIRTIES | The decade of the bodyline series, the invasion of Abyssinia and the Silver Jubilee of King George V |
| MARSTONMOOR | Site of a decisive battle in the English Civil War (7,4) |
| CINCODEMAYO | The anniversary of Mexico's victory over the French at Puebla in 1862, celebrated on May 5 (5,2,4) |
| TAD | End of the first decade in the Christian calendar |
| AQUITAINE | Historical region of south-west France ruled by England's kings from 1154 to the end of the Hundred Years' War (9) |
| ALAMEIN | Town in northern Egypt, the site of a decisive battle in 1942 (7) |
| DIEN | ___ Bien Phu (site of a decisive Vietminh victory over French forces) |
