| CHATTANOOGA | Battle in which Grant defeated Bragg |
| NEPENTHE | A drug which grants forgetfulness in Greek mythology (8) |
| ALADDINSLAMP | Talisman which grants any wish (8,4) |
| CHICKAMAURA | Battle in which Bragg defeated Rosecrans |
| ISSUS | Ancient settlement in the modern Turkish province of Hatay associated with a battle in which Alexander the Great defeated Darius III in 333 BC |
| PLATAEA | Battle in which the Persian army was defeated by the Greeks in 479 BC |
| EVESHAM | Battle in which the future Edward I defeated Simon de Montfort in 1265 |
| CULLODEN | A moor near Inverness in Scotland, the site of a 1746 battle in which Government troops defeated the Jacobites (8) |
| LEWES | County town of East Sussex near the site of a battle in which the younger Simon de Montfort defeated Henry III in May, 1264 (5) |
| MALDON | Battle in which the Danes defeated the Saxons in 991 (6) |
| MARENGO | Village in Italy, site of a 1800 battle in which Napoleon defeated the Austrians (7) |
| LEPANTO | Port in Greece between the Gulfs of Corinth and Patras that was the scene of a 1571 naval battle in which the Turkish fleet was defeated by the fleets of the Holy League |
| CULLODENMOOR | The site near Inverness in Scotland of a 1746 battle in which government troops defeated the Jacobites (8,4) |
| CRECY | Village in France, scene of a 1346 battle in which the English defeated the French (5) |
| AGINCOURT | 1415 battle in which English longbowmen under Henry V defeated French forces vastly superior in number |
| JENA | City in Germany, site of an 1806 battle in which Napoleon defeated the Prussians (4) |
| FREDERICKSBURG | Battle in which Lee defeated Burnside |
| SECONDMANASSAS | Battle in which Lee defeated Pope |
| HASTINGS | 1066 battle in which William the Conqueror defeated Harold (8) |
| WATERLOO | Battle in which Napoleon's army was defeated by an allied force under the Duke of Wellington (8) |
