| BOSWORTH | - Field; site of the battle of the Wars of the Roses where Richard III was killed with a halberd enabling Henry Tudor to be crowned as king (8) |
| POLEAXED | Struck with a halberd (8) |
| DEN | The original Queen Vic landlord who was killed with a doorstop by his then-wife Chrissie Watts (3) |
| PHAETHON | Son of Clymene and Helios who was killed with a thunderbolt thrown by Zeus for uncontrollably driving his father's sun chariot too close to Earth (8) |
| STEM | Part of a rose where the thorns are located |
| YORKSHIRE | Divided into three ridings, a county symbolised by a white rose where an annual UCI road cycling race is hosted (9) |
| FOTHERINGHAY | Former Northamptonshire castle where Richard III was born |
| FIELD | Battle of the Wars of the Roses at which Richard III was killed in 1485 (8,5) |
| TEWKESBURY | Market town in Gloucestershire, site of a decisive 1471 battle of the Wars of the Roses (10) |
| MARKETBOSWORTH | Small town near the site of the decisive final battle of the Wars of the Roses (6,8) |
| BOSWORTHFIELD | Battle of 1485 that effectively marked the end of the Wars of the Roses (8,5) |
| PLANTAGENET | Royal house that held the English throne from 1154 until Richard III was killed in battle in 1485 (11) |
| YORKIST | Represented by a white rose, any one of the rivals of the Lancastrians during the Wars of the Roses (7) |
| RED | Colour of the Wars of the Roses rose (3) |
| LANCASTER | Which Royal House was in opposition to the House of York in the Wars of the Roses? (9) |
| KINGMAKER | Epithet given to Richard Neville. the 16th Earl of Warwick. for his role in the Wars of the Roses (9) |
| JEANLAFITTE | French-born pirate who helped to defend New Orleans from the British in the final battle of the War of 1812 |
| TOWTON | Battle of -, North Yorkshire conflict in the Wars of the Roses fought on Palm Sunday, March, 1461 |
| STAGG | University of Chicago's ___ Field, site of a 1942 nuclear experiment |
| ELCID | 11th-century Spanish soldier who was a hero of the wars against the Moors (2,3) |
