| MISSOURI | U.S. battleship on which Japan signed its declaration of surrender at the end of World War Two in 1945 (8) |
| BATTLEOFBRITAIN | 1940 air engagement of World War Two in which RAF Fighter Command defeated the German Luftwaffe (6,2,7) |
| OTTOMAN | The former Turkish empire in Europe, Asia and Africa which lasted from the late 13c until the end of World War I (7) |
| OTTOMANEMPIRE | Turkish sultanate created in the 13th century under Osman Bey which lasted until the end of World War I (7,6) |
| LUFTWAFFE | What was the name of the German Airforce up until the end of World War II? (9) |
| CLEMENCEAU | Who was the prime minister of France at the end of World War I? (10) |
| ENIGMA | Series of electro-mechanical rotor cipher machines invented by German engineer Arthur Scherbius at the end of World War I |
| VJDAY | Name given to August 15th 1945 that marked the complete end of World War Two (1-1,3) |
| MERLIN | Small species of falcon; also the type of Rolls-Royce engine used during World War II in the Hurricane and Spitfire (6) |
| MARTINMAS | Heartless character losing direction in planet at the end of World War I (9) |
| AUSTRIAHUNGARY | Multinational state that dissolved at the end of World War I |
| PEACE | Popular pink-tinged creamy-yellow hybrid tea rose re-named to mark the end of World War II (5) |
| OWEN | Poet who won a Military Cross and was killed one week before the end of World War I (4) |
| THETHREESTOOGES | Slapstick comedy troupe who poked fun at Axis powers during World War II in the film "You Nazty Spy!" |
| WARSPITE | Hamlet with a battleship on its Welcome sign, it's in Smoky Lake County in Alberta |
| TSUSHIMA | Naval battle of 1905, in which Japan inflicted a heavy defeat on the Russian fleet (8) |
| MAINE | U.S. battleship sunk in Havana harbor in 1898 |
| ALAMEIN | El -, scene of a decisive Allied victory of World War II in 1942 (7) |
| NEHRU | He spent most of World War II in jail |
| WORLDWARII | 1939-45 conflict in which Japan was one of the Axis powers: 3 wds. |
