| Prolonged military attack | 25 |
| Preattack tactic | 16 |
| Ploy at Troy | 12 |
| Ploy against Troy | 17 |
| Persistent squeeze | 18 |
| Ordeal for Troy | 15 |
| Operation at the Alamo | 22 |
| Ongoing trouble | 15 |
| Not just a raid | 15 |
| More than a raid | 16 |
| Military strategem | 18 |
| Military encirclement | 21 |
| Longtime bother | 15 |
| Long, distressing period | 24 |
| Long series of troubles | 23 |
| Long period, as of illness | 26 |
| Long illness | 12 |
| Long battle | 11 |
| Leningrad's ordeal: 1941–44 | 38 |
| Leningrad ordeal of '40s | 28 |
| Leningrad ordeal | 16 |
| Lay ___ to (pursue persistently) | 32 |
| Grant's strategy at Vicksburg | 33 |
| Fort fight | 10 |
| Flock of herons | 15 |
| Extensive attack | 16 |
| Extended battle | 15 |
| Extended attack | 15 |
| Event at Vicksburg: 1862–63 | 34 |
| Event at Vicksburg: 1862-63 | 27 |
| Event at ancient Troy | 21 |
| Encircling tactic | 17 |
| Drawn-out assault | 17 |
| Crusades tactic | 15 |
| City blockade | 13 |
| Challenge for defenders | 23 |
| Cause of a downfall | 19 |
| Campaign against Troy, e.g. | 27 |
| Bout of a sort | 14 |
| Blockade of a kind | 18 |
| Beleaguerment | 13 |
| Battle with sickness | 20 |
| Battle of attrition | 19 |
| Attack tactic | 13 |
| Attack on a fort, maybe | 23 |
| Arthur's ___ Perilous | 25 |
| Army strategy | 13 |
| All-out assault | 15 |
| Alamo ordeal | 12 |
| Agamemnon's action at Troy | 30 |
| Act of war | 10 |
| 1998 Denzel Washington movie, with "The" | 50 |
| ___ Perilous, at the Round Table | 32 |
| ___ Perilous (Round Table seat) | 31 |
| ___ Perilous | 12 |
| ___ of Leningrad, 1941-44 | 25 |
| Encircled and attacked | 22 |
| Assailed militarily | 19 |
| Blockaded | 9 |
| Attacked persistently | 21 |
| Oscar-nominated role for Beatty | 31 |
| Oldtime gangster Bugsy | 22 |
| Movie critic Joel | 17 |
| Mobster Bugsy | 13 |
| Gangster Bugsy | 14 |
| Film critic Joel | 16 |
| Don who directed "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," 1956 | 65 |
| Cartoonist Jerry, co-creator of Superman | 40 |
| Bugsy's last name | 21 |
| "Dirty Harry" director Don | 36 |
| ___ Troy | 8 |
| Autumnal event in 1781 | 22 |
| Prolonged attacks | 17 |
| Military blockades | 18 |
| All-out attacks | 15 |
| Major assaults | 14 |
| Blockades | 9 |
| War of attrition tactics | 24 |
| War movie scenes | 16 |
| Some war plans | 14 |
| Protracted battles | 18 |
| Prolonged woes | 14 |
| Persistent attacks | 18 |
| Much medieval warfare | 21 |
| Military encirclements | 22 |
| Long, wearying periods | 22 |
| Long fights | 11 |
| Long battles | 12 |
| Long attacks | 12 |
| Lengthy assaults | 16 |
| Isolating tactics | 17 |
| Extended attacks | 16 |
| Events at Troy and Vicksburg | 28 |
| Drawn-out war tactics | 21 |
| Drawn-out war campaigns | 23 |
| Noted animal trainers | 21 |
| Guys with white tigers, once | 28 |
| Famous cat lovers | 17 |
| Bready magic act? | 17 |
| Opera hero and others | 21 |