| CRIMEAN | Description of a war cry, short, to be precise |
| PENINSULAR | Write prejudiced description of a war |
| CARRIEDAWAY | Lost all self-control with a wild idea: a war cry (7,4) |
| AQUATIC | Like a duck it rises, cutting a duck's cry short (7) |
| TENDRIL | Youngster? Bit short to be a bit of a climber |
| USED | Turns to boss of hacks, in short, to be employed (4) |
| PROFESS | Claim, in short, to be a donnish female? (7) |
| CAMPAIGN | A connected series of operations forming a distinct phase of a war (8) |
| APART | Segregation barred chap - one had, in short, to be separate (5) |
| LICENSING | Giving permission for nice single short to be drunk (9) |
| BANAL | Don't permit anything short to be worn |
| PASSE | Help, as seen in short to be old-fashioned (5) |
| SPAIN | Its throne was the subject of a war of succession from 1701 to 1714, involving France, Austria, Britain and Holland (5) |
| OVERTHETOP | It'll never be said of a War Poet's writing, though a good few went that way fighting. (4,3,3) |
| ERIE | Site of a War of 1812 naval battle |
| KOREA | Site of a war that lasted from 1950 to 1953 |
| CRIMEA | Location of a war of 1853-56 (6) |
| BATTLES | Bostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war (7) |
| VIETNAM | Scene of a war from 1955 to 1975 (7) |
| FTERIE | Ont. site of a War of 1812 battle |
