| ORGREAVE | Village in South Yorkshire whose colliery was the site of a major confrontation between miners and police officers in 1984 |
| BARNSLEY | Industrial town in South Yorkshire whose football team are nicknamed The Tykes |
| NUMERICAL | Heath caught between miners and line of figures (9) |
| SEATONBURN | Village in Tyne and Wear through which the A1 used to pass and whose colliery was closed by the National Coal Board in 1965 |
| SHOWDOWN | Major confrontation (8) |
| WENTWORTH | Village in South Yorkshire, home to the UK's largest privately owned house with the longest facade in Europe, approximately twice as wide as Buckingham Palace |
| JACKMORMON | Major confrontation's beginning: monk abused lapsed sect member |
| DAVY | Cornish chemist whose invention of a firedamp safety lamp decreased the number of fatalities of miners and contributed to the progression of the industrialisation of Britain (4) |
| TSUSHIMA | The ... Strait was the site of a major naval battle in May 1905 in the Russo-Japanese War (8) |
| NASEBY | Northamptonshire village that was the site of a major Parliamentarian victory in the Civil War in 1645 (6) |
| CULLODEN | Battle of ___, confrontation between the Jacobites and the House of Hanover fought near Inverness in |
| GALLEON | In the 1588 confrontation between the Spanish Armada and the Royal Navy, both sides mostly used which type of ship? (7) |
| YPRES | Belgian (Flanders) municipality, the site of a major WWI battle - and a variety of Primula auricula (5) |
| PASSERO | Cape ___ , a promontory in southern Sicily, the site of a major sea battle in 1718 (7) |
| GUADALCANAL | One of the Solomon Islands noted as the site of a major Allied offensive against Japan in 1942-43 (11) |
| WOOMERA | Town in South Australia which is site of a major test range of the Royal Australian Air Force (7) |
| LEEDS | City in West Yorkshire whose affinity with owls stems from the three borne in its coat of arms (5) |
| BATLEY | Market town in West Yorkshire whose Variety Club was frequented by many notable acts between 1966 and 1977 |
| ILKLEY | Spa town in West Yorkshire whose moor is the subject of a folk song |
| LIGHTNING | Weather phenomenon most frequently seen in Kifuka, a village in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo (9) |
