| Major hostilities | 17 |
| Major conflicts | 15 |
| History class topics | 20 |
| The "W" in V.F.W. | 27 |
| Serious conflicts | 17 |
| Rancid "The ___ End" | 30 |
| Woden's domain | 18 |
| What have been banished from the four longest answers | 53 |
| Trojan and Korean | 17 |
| Treaty preceders | 16 |
| Treaties end them | 17 |
| They may be revolutionary | 25 |
| They can be hot or cold | 23 |
| They can be holy | 16 |
| The W in V.F.W. | 15 |
| States of hostility | 19 |
| Sometimes civil contests | 24 |
| Some involve attrition | 22 |
| Some are declared | 17 |
| Service-academy studies | 23 |
| Punic and World | 15 |
| Punic ___ | 9 |
| Part of VFW | 11 |
| Occasions when the arms are raised | 34 |
| Occasions when arms are raised | 30 |
| Napoleonic and Crimean | 22 |
| Military conflicts | 18 |
| Major skirmishes | 16 |
| Korean and Crimean | 18 |
| Jihads | 6 |
| International news topics | 25 |
| I and II, e.g., but not yet III and IV | 38 |
| History book topics | 19 |
| General activities? | 19 |
| Engagement settings | 19 |
| End of numerous reality-show titles | 35 |
| Devastating conflicts | 21 |
| Declared items | 14 |
| Crimean and Korean | 18 |
| Crimean and Boer | 16 |
| Cola __ | 7 |
| Civil and Boer | 14 |
| Boer and others | 15 |
| Boer and Crimean | 16 |
| Bloody messes | 13 |
| Battles of bands, perhaps | 25 |
| Battles it out | 14 |
| Battles comprise them | 21 |
| Battles against | 15 |
| Arms-raising occasions | 22 |
| Aggressive conflicts | 20 |
| "Word ___" (2004 Scrabble documentary) | 48 |
| "Star ___" (Lucas film) | 33 |
| "Star ___," biggest movie of 1977 | 43 |
| "Star _____" | 22 |
| "Ring out the thousand ___ of old": Tennyson | 54 |
| "Price" conflicts | 27 |
| Polish capital | 14 |
| City on the Vistula River | 25 |
| Eastern bloc pact city | 22 |
| 1955 treaty city | 16 |
| 1955 pact city | 14 |
| Well-known concerto | 19 |
| PolandÂ’s capital | 20 |
| Poland's capital | 20 |
| Poland capital | 14 |
| Ontario community or Polish namesake | 37 |
| Madame Curie's hometown | 27 |
| Its airport is named for Chopin | 31 |
| Central Ontario village | 23 |
| Capital on the Vistula | 22 |
| Capital east of Berlin | 22 |
| 1939 invasion site | 18 |
| "The Pianist" setting | 31 |
| ___ Pact: 1955 | 14 |
| Polish surgeon | 14 |
| Ammo made in Poland? | 20 |
| Polish buck rider? | 18 |
| European capital influence? | 27 |
| Polish sister showed her inexperience | 37 |
| It was dissolved in 1991 | 24 |
| 1955 Communist defense treaty | 29 |
| Recollection from a winter tourist in Poland? | 45 |
| Meteorologist's palindromic report | 38 |
| Monitor or Merrimack | 20 |
| Destroyer, for one | 18 |
| Maine, e.g. | 11 |
| Main threat? | 12 |
| Destroyer, e.g. | 15 |
| Targets at Pearl Harbor: 1941 | 29 |
| Combat vessels | 14 |
| Carriers or cruisers, e.g. | 26 |
| Blockade enforcers | 18 |
| Truceless battles | 17 |
| "Over There" and "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" | 71 |
| Vet's offering | 18 |
| Toad feature | 12 |
| Witch's facial blemish | 26 |
| Witch's blemish | 19 |
| Toad-handling consequence, in folklore | 38 |