| RELIANCE | Fort ___ (19thcentury expedition/ wintering base in the Northwest Territories) |
| ANDERSEN | Hans Christian _, 19thcentury Danish author famous for his fairy tales (8) |
| ATOLL | Coral island and surrounding reef such as Diego Garcia (used by the US as a air base in the Indian Ocean) and Mururoa (used by the French to test nuclear weapons in the Pacific) |
| FALCON | Bird of prey; on Mallorca the Peregrine and Kestrel variety are resident and Eleanora's returns in the spring after wintering in Madagascar (6) |
| YAP | Group of four islands in the Caroline Islands of the Pacific which were an important Japanese naval base in the Second World War (3) |
| NORTHOLT | Oldest RAF base in the UK that opened in Ruislip in 1915 (8) |
| BURNHAM | What is the name of the largest army base in the South Island? (7) |
| PLATH | Author of The Bell Jar and poems including Ariel, Sheep in Fog, Elm, Poppies in October and Wintering (5) |
| AWOL | Missing from the base, in the military: Abbr. |
| GITMO | Cuban base in the news, in brief |
| PRECIOUSSTONES | In Canada, they might originate from the ekati Diamond Mine in the northwest Territories, for instan |
| OURLADYOFVICTORY | Dome-shaped Roman Catholic church in Inuvik in the Northwest Territories nicknamed the 'Igloo Church': 4 wds. |
| FORTSIMPSON | It is the only village in the Northwest Territories - and is known as the gateway to Nahanni National Park Reserve: 2 wds. |
| FORTSMITH | Slave River town in the Northwest Territories near the Alberta border: 2 wds. |
| TUNDRAHILLS | 'Natural Region' of the Tuktut Nogait National Park in the Northwest Territories: 2 wds. |
| DEH | ___ Cho Bridge (It crosses the Mackenzie River in the Northwest Territories) |
| EDZO | Rae/___ Airport, it's near the community of Behchoko in the Northwest Territories |
| ALLWEATHERROAD | The Inuvik-tuktoyaktuk Highway is an ___-___ ___ in the Northwest Territories |
| MINES | Diamond ___ (Diavik in the Northwest Territories and Renard in Quebec) |
| DELTA | The Mackenzie ___, in the Northwest Territories |
