| CRECY | The site of a decisive English victory over the French in the first decade of the Hundred Years' War (5) |
| AGINCOURT | 1415 battle, a decisive English victory over the French (9) |
| HASTINGS | Decisive English battle in 1066 (8) |
| OUGHTS | Possible name for the first decade of the century |
| TEWKESBURY | Market town in Gloucestershire, site of a decisive 1471 battle in the Wars of the Roses (10) |
| FROISSART | Medieval historian whose Chronicles chart the events of the Hundred Years' War including the accession of Edward III, the Battle of Crecy and the Peasants' Revolt (9) |
| NASEBY | Site of a decisive Royalist defeat in the English Civil War on 14 June 1645 (6) |
| ORLEANS | French city liberated from the English by Joan of Arc on 8 May 1429 as part of the Hundred Years War (7) |
| RODNEY | George -, British admiral; victor over the French in the Battle of the Saintes of 1782 (6) |
| JUANMANUELFANGIO | Driver from Argentina who dominated the first decade of Formula One racing (4,6,6) |
| WOLFE | General James ____ died in the hour of victory, over the French at Quebec in 1759 |
| ALAMEIN | Town in northern Egypt, the site of a decisive battle in 1942 (7) |
| DIEN | ___ Bien Phu (site of a decisive Vietminh victory over French forces) |
| THIRTIES | The decade of the bodyline series, the invasion of Abyssinia and the Silver Jubilee of King George V |
| CINCODEMAYO | The anniversary of Mexico's victory over the French at Puebla in 1862, celebrated on May 5 (5,2,4) |
| TAD | End of the first decade in the Christian calendar |
| TRAFALGAR | Cape on the SW coast of Spain, south of Cadiz, that was the scene of a decisive naval battle in 1805 in which Nelson was mortally wounded |
| AQUITAINE | Historical region of south-west France ruled by England's kings from 1154 to the end of the Hundred Years' War (9) |
| ONTHE | Gloucestershire market town, site in spring 1646 of a decisive battle of the Civil War (4-2-3-4) |
| STOW | Gloucestershire market town, site in spring 1646 of a decisive battle of the Civil War (4-2-3-4) |
