The Clue
Belgian war town (5 letter answer)
The Answer
YPRES
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Notes
The answer YPRES is uncommon, appearing about once every 400 puzzles.
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Definition
YPRES as a noun:
1. (Ypres, battle of Ypres, third battle of Ypres) = battle in World War I (1917); an Allied offensive which eventually failed because tanks bogged down in the waterlogged soil of Flanders; Germans introduced mustard gas which interfered with the Allied artillery
2. (Ypres, battle of Ypres, second battle of Ypres) = battle in World War I (1915); Germans wanted to try chlorine (a toxic yellow gas) as a weapon and succeeded in taking considerable territory from the Allied salient
3. (Ypres, battle of Ypres, first battle of Ypres) = battle in World War I (1914); heavy but indecisive fighting as the Allies and the Germans both tried to break through the lines of the others