| BOCAGE | Terrain of mixed woodland and pasture, some of which slowed the progress of Allied forces in Operation Overlord |
| FOCH | Ferdinand ____ was the supreme commander of Allied forces in the First World War |
| FERDINANDFOCH | French commander-in-chief of Allied forces during the First World War (9,4) |
| IMPEDED | Slowed the flow of |
| BRAKED | Slowed the car |
| PARAMOUNT | Supreme head of allied force, old, aboard boat |
| CORALSEA | Battle of the ____, 1942 WWII conflict between Japan and Allied forces in the South Pacific (5,3) |
| GALLIPOLI | Peninsula of NW Turkey between the Dardanelles and the Aegean Sea, scene of an attempted invasion of the Ottoman Empire by Allied forces during World War I 1915 (9) |
| MACARTHUR | General Douglas who was the supreme commander of the Allied forces in the southwest Pacific during W |
| SORGHUM | Genus of about 25 species of plants in the grass family, some of which are grown as cereals for human consumption, and others in pastures for animals (7) |
| OVERLORD | Operation ___, codename for the invasion of Normandy by Allied forces in World War II |
| NEWFOREST | Area of woodland and heath in Hampshire that inspired books by Marryat and Blackmore and is one of the UK's National Parks (3,6) |
| CHERRY | Wild -; with heavy boughs of white blossom in the spring and edible fruits in the summer, a native tree of woodlands and old hedgerows, also called gean (6) |
| CUCKOOPINT | With a spadix and a spathe, a wild arum of woodland and hedgerows, also known as Jack-in-the-pulpit or lords and ladies (6,4) |
| BLACKBIRD | Garden, woodland and parkland inhabitant that sings in the dawn chorus with the song thrush, robin, wren, chiffchaff and others (9) |
| CHINDIT | A member of the Allied forces commanded by Orde Wingate fighting behind the Japanese lines in Burma in World War II (7) |
| SALERNO | Port in S.W. Italy, scene of fighting between Allied forces and Germany in September, 1943 (7) |
| GREATBEARRAINFOREST | Vast terrain of temperate growth in British Columbia where the rare Kermode (the province's provincial mammal) is found: 3 wds. |
| ROYALMINT | Government-owned company producing up to 90 million coins and blanks a week, some of which are subject to the periodic trial of the pyx procedure (5,4) |
| AMINO | -- - acid, any of a group of organic compounds some of which cannot be synthesised and must come thr |
