| SUBMARINES | Warships used by Germany in the Battle of the Atlantic, a conflict described by Churchill as the "U-boat peril" (10) |
| ELALAMEIN | The Second Battle of ____ in 1942 was described by Churchill as "perhaps, the end of the beginning" |
| ORTONA | World War II, 1943: Canada was victorious over Germany in the Battle of ___ which took place on the Adriatic coast in Italy |
| UBOATS | Naval submarines operated by Germany in the First and Second World Wars (1-5) |
| DESTROYERS | Very fast warships used primarily as escorts |
| BIGBERTHA | Nickname given to a giant artillery piece used by Germany in World War I (3,6) |
| QUARTERDECK | Part of warship used by officers (11) |
| DROMOND | Warship used by the Byzantine navy |
| DROMON | Warship used by the Byzantine navy |
| BIREME | Ancient two-deck warship used by the Romans (6) |
| CAPRI | In the mid-Atlantic, a private island (5) |
| THECRUELSEA | 1951 novel by Nicholas Monsarrat following the lives of a group of Royal Navy sailors fighting the Battle of the Atlantic during World War II |
| ESCORT | American Buckley class destroyers and British Flower class corvettes were used in convoy ____s in the Battle of the Atlantic |
| KAISERSLAUTERN | City in southwest Germany, in the Bundesland of Rhineland-Palatinate, that became the largest US garrison outside the United States in the late 1940s |
| SHOCK | First stout drunk in Germany in the past - that'll come as a bolt out of the blue (5) |
| DONITZ | Karl, German U-boat fleet commander in the Battle of the Atlantic (6) |
| ANSCHLUSS | Political or economic union, especially the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938 (9) |
| OLDHARROVIAN | As alumni of the same school, a CV link shared by Churchill and Nehru (3,9) |
| ENIGMA | Name of encoding device used by Germany |
| EDEN | The successor of Churchill as prime minister in 1955 |
