| FOCH | Ferdinand, marshal of France who was commander in chief of Allied armies on the Western front in Wor |
| NEY | Michel -, marshal of France who was shot for treason after the Battle of Waterloo (3) |
| ROBERTELEE | General who was commander- in-chief of the Confederate armies in the American Civil War (6,13) |
| SCHEER | Reinhard, German naval commander who was commander-in-chief at the Battle of Jutland in 1916 (6) |
| WADE | George ___ (1673 - 1748), Irish soldier who was Commander-in-chief North Britain (1724 - 40) (4) |
| THEFEW | Name for the Allied airmen of the Royal Air Force who fought the Battle of Britain in the Second Wor |
| DDE | U.S. president who was commander of the Allied armies during World War II: Abbr. |
| MARLBOROUGH | The Duke of --was commander of British forces in the War of the Spanish Succession (11) |
| JOANOFARC | National heroine and patron saint of France who was burned at the stake in 1431 (4,2,3) |
| RUPERT | English/German prince who was commander of the Royalist cavalry during the English Civil War (6) |
| FERDINANDFOCH | French commander-in-chief of Allied forces during the First World War (9,4) |
| LOUISXVI | King of France who was guillotined in 1793, around nine months prior to his wife Marie Antoinette (5 |
| CLAQUEUR | A person in France who was hired to applaud performers in the theatre (8) |
| ROMMEL | Who was commander of the Afrika Korps? (6) |
| SPOONER | W A ___, English clergyman renowned for his transposition of the initial consonants of a pair of wor |
| EARHART | Pioneer lady aviator Amelia ..., disappeared in July, 1937, while nearing the end of a round-the-wor |
| TATA | Goodbye to all those armies on the front (2-2) |
| LAZY | Like someone who lies in his bed all afternoon solving/making crosswords instead of getting real wor |
| LECLERC | French battle tank named after a World War II general posthumously made Marshal of France (7) |
| TDLEE | Which Chinese-born US theoretical physicist, with Yang, won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their wor |
