| CORALSEA | Body of water lying between Australia and Vanuatu, a critical WWII naval battle was fought there (5, |
| TASMANSEA | Section of the SW Pacific lying between Australia and New Zealand (6,3) |
| GULFOFADEN | Body of water lying between Yemen and Somalia |
| TRAFALGAR | Cape on the southwest coast of Spain off which an 1805 naval battle was fought (9) |
| DDAY | Critical WWII event |
| ADRIATICSEA | Body of water lying north-east of the Italian Peninsula and west of the Balkan Peninsula (8,3) |
| JAVASEA | Site of a major WWII naval battle in 1942 |
| INDIAN | Large expanse of water lying between Africa and Australia (6,5) |
| OCEAN | Large expanse of water lying between Africa and Australia (6,5) |
| DEADSEA | Expanse of water lying between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan (4,3) |
| ARALSEA | Expanse of water lying between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan (4,3) |
| CORAL | The ... Sea is an arm of the Pacific Ocean between New Guinea, Australia and Vanuatu (5) |
| WATERLOO | Small town in Walloon Brabant, central Belgium near which an 1815 battle was fought (8) |
| TEXEL | Dutch island off which the battle of ___, a naval engagement in the Third Anglo-Dutch War, was fought (5) |
| EDGEHILL | Move slowly down where battle was fought |
| FIVEFORKS | Where the last major Civil War battle was fought |
| ELSALVADOR | A war was fought between Honduras and which country after one beat the other in a 1969 World Cup football match? (2,8) |
| SALAMIS | The famous naval battle during the Persian Wars was fought off the shores of this small Greek island |
| YSER | River flowing from France through Belgium, along which a battle forming part of the Race to the Sea was fought (4) |
| HUNDREDYEARS | The -- War was fought between England and France from 1337-1453 (7,5) |
