| PUNIC | ___ Wars (conflicts between 20-Across and Carthage) |
| WILD | Tigers can live between 20-26 Years in the ___ |
| OPIUM | ___ Wars, conflicts of 1839-42 and 1856-60 |
| PUNICWARS | Conflicts between Rome and Carthage |
| NURSERYRHYMES | What 20- Across and 39- Across are |
| NAPOLEONIC | ? Wars, series of conflicts between France and Great Britain, Prussia, Russia and Austria (10) |
| OPIUMWARS | Ninteenth Century conflicts between Britain and China |
| BATTLEOFBULLRUN | Either of two Civil War conflicts |
| CAUGHTA | Cuba and Carthage, virtually riotous, had problems rowing (6,1,4) |
| PHOENICIA | Ancient Mediterranean region whose cities included Tyre and Carthage |
| OPIUMWAR | One of the two conflicts between China and Britain in the 19th Century (5,3) |
| FEUDS | Ongoing conflicts between clans |
| FRICTIONS | Conflicts between people caused by cost in fir perhaps (9) |
| CONTESTS | What are conflicts between competitors (8) |
| WARS | Conflicts between nations (4) |
| STARERWARS | Conflicts between unblinking participants? |
| STARWARS | Film conflicts between leading players (4,4) |
| EBRO | Longest river entirely within Spain, used to divide the territories of Rome and Carthage following the First Punic War (264-241 BC) (4) |
| STARTERWARS | Conflicts between beginners? |
| ASTOPPED | (and 14 across, 20 across and 21 across) Proverb suggesting that even normally unreliable people or things can occasionally get it right (8) |
