Possible Clues:

• English novelist, it's said — and the sort of press correspondent he once was?
• Affair of Ares
• 1970 hit that asks about its title, "What is it good for?"
• Battle field
• Type of paint or party
• Hell, as they say
• Giant fight
• What's broken out of the answers to the starred clues?
• Fight part of hospital cut
• It's hell, they say