| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| STRONGHOLDS | Bastions | |
| PROPS | Bastions | |
| TOWERS | Bastions | |
| CITADELS | Bastions | |
| BASTIONED | Furnished with a bastion; having bastions. | |
| RETRENCH | To furnish with a retrenchment; as, to retrench bastions. | |
| TENAILLE | An outwork in the main ditch, in front of the curtain, between two bastions. See Illust. of Ravelin. | |
| BASE | The exterior side of the polygon, or that imaginary line which connects the salient angles of two adjacent bastions. | |
| GUERITE | A projecting turret for a sentry, as at the salient angles of works, or the acute angles of bastions. | |
| CURTAIN | That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of Ravelin and Bastion. | |
| TENAILLON | A work constructed on each side of the ravelins, to increase their strength, procure additional ground beyond the ditch, or cover the shoulders of the bastions. | |
| DEMILUNE | A work constructed beyond the main ditch of a fortress, and in front of the curtain between two bastions, intended to defend the curtain; a ravelin. See Ravelin. | |
| BASTION | ...ends from one bastion to another. Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain, which joins the flank of one with the adjacent flank of th... | |