| CHINDIT | A member of one of Brigadier Wingate's long-range penetration groups in the Burma campaign of the Second World War (7) |
| GERARD | "The Exploits of Brigadier -", novel by Arthur Conan Doyle (6) |
| RIG | Part of brigadier's equipment (3) |
| DUNLOP | 'A lighthouse of sanity in a universe of madness and suffering' was how the WWII POWs in the Burma-T |
| SARACEN | Member of one of the nomadic Arabic tribes of the Syrian desert that harassed the borders of the Roman Empire (7) |
| ACHAEAN | A member of one of the four divisions of the prehistoric Greeks. |
| THEEDGE | Stage name of guitarist David Howell Evans, a member of one of the world's best known rock bands (3,4) |
| DOOWOP | A type of rhythm-and-blues harmony singing style created by street-corner groups in the US in the 1950s (3-3) |
| PEER | Any member of one of the degrees of nobility in the UK (4) |
| APACHE | Member of one of a group of culturally-related Native American Indian tribes in Southwestern US (6) |
| PETERSBURG | City in Virginia on the Appomattox River that saw the final campaign of the American Civil War (10) |
| ESKIMO | A member of one of several indigenous peoples or the circumpolar Arctic (6) |
| SLIM | Viscount ___, British commander of the Burma Campaign (4) |
| BRNO | Second-largest city of the Czech Republic, in the SE at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers (4) |
| IDA | ___ B. Wells, civil-rights leader who founded one of the first Black women's suffrage groups in the U.S. |
| DEMOCRAT | Member of one of the main political parties in the USA |
| FAITHFUL | Member of one of the groups on The Traitors (8) |
| WHIG | Member of one of the two UK political parties from the 17th to 19th centuries (4) |
| SELMA | Recent film about an episode in the US civil rights campaign of the 1960s. (5) |
| FAREWELLTOARMS | A _ _ _, 1929 Ernest Hemingway novel set during the Italian campaign of the First World War (8,2,4) |
