| LUCAN | wrote an epic poem about the war between Caesar and Pompey |
| BEOWULF | 2007 film based on an epic poem about a Geatish warrior portrayed by Ray Winstone (7) |
| ILIAD | Homer's long Greek epic poem about the wrath of Achilles and the Trojan war |
| PARADISELOST | Milton's epic poem about the fall of Adam and Eve |
| MARMION | Sir Walter Scott's epic poem about the Battle of Flodden |
| CRASSUS | Roman general and politician who allied with Julius Caesar and Pompey in 60 BC to form the First Triumvirate (7) |
| RUBICON | Name the N Italian river associated with Caesar and Pompey (7) |
| LURIE | Pulitzer-winning professor who penned Don't Tell the Grown-ups, The War Between the Tates, books for children and also edited The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales (5) |
| FALKLANDS | Name of the war between the United Kingdom and Argentina featured in multiple films including 2011's The Iron Lady (9) |
| ALISONLURIE | Author of novels The War Between the Tates and Foreign Affairs |
| ALISON | Author of novels The War Between the Tates and Foreign Affairs (6,5) |
| LASTLAUGH | The ____, Wilfred Owen poem about the First World War |
| FERE | "The Ballad of the Goodly ___" (Ezra Pound poem about the crucifixion) |
| TATES | "The War Between the ___" (Alison Lurie novel) |
| GETTYSBURG | Where Lee-siders took a pounding in the War between the States (10) |
| MACHINERY | Bulldozers, combine harvesters, diggers, excavators, fork-lifts, graders and the like collectively; the working parts of said engines; or, supernatural elements within an epic poem (9) |
| AWARDS | It's terribly sad about the war medals (6) |
| EDITORIOLES | "Newspapers were full of ___ about the war ..." |
| BULWARK | Strong support for a weighty volume about the war (7) |
| ODYSSEUS | Legendary Greek king of Ithaca and the hero of an epic poem by Homer (8) |
