| APASSAGETOINDIA | 1924 novel set during the British Raj |
| CURRY | The 'Railway Lamb' example was introduced on Indian railways during the British Raj, so the story goes! (5) |
| CALCUTTA | Indian capital during the British Raj |
| THUG | A highway robber during the British Raj, it now refers to any goon |
| INDIA | A Passage To ---, 1924 novel by E.M. Forster set against the backdrop of the British Raj (5) |
| APASSAGETO | 1924 novel by E M Forster set against the backdrop of the British Raj (1,7,2,5) |
| AFGHANISTAN | Nation, next door to Pakistan, that's been a battleground for the forces of the British Raj, the Soviet Empire and the coalition of the willing |
| FAREWELLTOARMS | A _ _ _, 1929 Ernest Hemingway novel set during the Italian campaign of the First World War (8,2,4) |
| BADGE | "The Red ___ of Courage" (Stephen Crane novel set during the Civil War) |
| PUTOUTMOREFLAGS | Evelyn Waugh novel set during the early days of the Second World War |
| TOLLS | Ernest Hemingway's novel set during the Spanish Civil War, For Whom The Bell ... |
| DARKNESSATONEPM | 1940 Arthur Koestler novel set during the Moscow Trials |
| BIRDSONG | Sebastian Faulks novel set during the First World War (8) |
| AFAREWELLTOARMS | Ernest Hemingway novel set during the First World War |
| THETRUMPETMAJOR | Hardy novel set during the Napoleonic Wars |
| ALONGLONGWAY | Sebastian Barry novel set during the First World War. (1,4,4,3) |
| THEBELL | Hemingway novel set during the Spanish civil war (3,4,3,4,5) |
| FORWHOM | Hemingway novel set during the Spanish civil war (3,4,3,4,5) |
| WEIROFHERMISTON | Uncompleted 1896 Robert Louis Stevenson novel set during the Napoleonic Wars (4,2,9) |
| THEGRAPESOFWRATH | John Steinbeck novel set during The Great Depression (3,6,2,5) |
