Thanks to Henry Walton, Head of Humanities at Manor CE in York (@HenryWalton5) for collating these history cryptic crossword clues. Cryptic crosswords are a bit like marmite – some history teachers just don’t get the excitement, other history teachers love ’em. Why not have a go? The answers are at the bottom – no peaking! Happy half-term – with apologies to the minority who had half term last week – and good wishes to all from #OBHD!

1. Appliance as it should be without French President (8)
2. But we must supplant President’s last love (7)
3. Hamper not going north with polar explorer (10)
4. Roosevelt settled for Republican surveying device (10)
5. Technocrat redesigned form of protection (6,4)
6. Favourite leader’s lost weight where some US VIPs have gained stones (9)
7. Current tests pushed back repressive force (5)
8. Solver’s received affection, speaking out for English partisan (7)
9. President that’s kind of green (7)
10. In battle with airline I get in the final word (2,7)
11. Where soldiers were ordered to go too much (4,3,3)
12. US President in dispute, PM joining club (7,6)
13. House given a choice of sturdy or weak foundations (4)
14. Malevolent character, US President once on board (5)
15. Corsican holding up a toff, left without diamonds (9)
16. It’s nice to see president and disgraced royal in conversation (3,5)
17. Singer fine with drugs? They have reservations (8)
18. Everyone held back by master, a 14th-century reformer (7)
19. Conflict provided communist leader with a world unsettled (4,3)
20. Medieval banquet might add to it (6,3,6)
21. Part of Venezuela due for uprising, like most of Europe once (6)
22. They entertain camp old soldiers (8)
23. Wore bra uncomfortably in fight (4,3)
24. Speared by Zulu, the rancorous Protestant (8)
25. Date of historic score with combination of sixes (8,6)
26. Iron hook smashed large stone (3-1-4)
27. Political theory backing strike – is money after a vote? (7)
28. President exchanges vote for new fabric (5)
29. Pro-Democrat President (4)
30. Primarily, ancient Royal Marines’ adversaries Drake annihilated? (6)
31. To ridicule the French, Trump recalled battle they lost (9)
32. Extended courtesy for killer at Agincourt (7)
33. What Mussolini’s supporters were to bring about (7)
34. Like William Wallace’s outdated tax, this is complicated (8)
35. Gangster stole one (8)
36. Was every sane soldier ultimately involved in it? (5,5,3)
37. Inca dances, led by bird, that didn’t go down well (7)
38. Line taken by a king that was shot at Agincourt (5)
39. Parliamentarians were on one side of this chair, swivelling round (7,5,3)
40. It spells end of vegetation when put on a tree (6)
41. She inspired historians starting to chart life at Oxford (4)
42. Member of an old empire, preserved (5)
43. Sultan leaves home (7)
44. Stoppage in force once beginning to show (6)
45. Millions take in an unspecified battle (5)
46. Child tracks men on foot (8)
47. Zeppelin songs extremely cool (7)
48. Historian, a big swinger (6)
49. Waste time in oubliette (7)
50. Battle ground (8,6)
51. Number of fashion items in Mary Quant’s era (7)
52. Late battle unfinished, one gutted about it (7)
53. Thatcher’s rival so-called? Leading rebel (5)
54. Soldier of the Great War, ex-Tory MP in rendition of Let It Be (3, 12)
55. What’s maybe experienced by impatient practical joker in military retreat (4,5)
56. He generates huge interest seizing power – Richard III? (7)
57. Pacifist elements of Goring and Himmler (6)
58. Does Dylan’s composition, Times Past (5,4)
59. A brother we shot in turn-of-century conflict (3,4,3)
60. Rustic East Anglian leaders wear peculiar pants (7)

Solutions:

1. Coolidge
2. However
3. Shackleton
4. Theodolite 
5. Trench coat
6. Arlington
7. Stasi
8. Yorkist
9. Lincoln
10. El Alamein
11. Over the top
12. Woodrow Wilson
13. York
14. Sikes
15. Bonaparte
16. Eye candy
17. Cherokee
18. Lollard
19. Cold War
20. Middle Age Spread
21. Feudal
22. Redcoats
23. Boer War
24. Lutheran
25. Eighteen twelve
26. Koh-i-noor
27. Marxism
28. Ninon
29. Ford
30. Armada
31. Trafalgar
32. Longbow
33. Produce
34. Scottish
35. Scarface
36. Seven Years War
37. Titanic
38. Arrow
39. English Civil War
40. Napalm
41. Clio 
42. Incan
43. Saladin
44. Stasis
45. Somme
46. Infantry
47. Airship
48. Gibbon
49. Dungeon
50. Stamford Bridge
51. Sixties
52. Overdue
53. Tyler
54. Old Contemptible
55. Long March
56. Usurper
57. Gandhi
58. Olden days
59. The Boer War
60. Peasant

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