| CUSTER | George Armstrong ?, US lieutenant colonel killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876 |
| CRAZYHORSE | Leader of the Oglala Lakota who led a war party at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876 |
| SULTANA | Sovereign’s wife backed US lieutenant with articles |
| COMANCHE | Horse who was the sole documented survivor of the US cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876) (8) |
| SEVENTH | Cavalry regiment Lt Col George Custer was serving in when he died at the Battle of the Little Bighorn (7) |
| WARWICK | 16th Earl of -; title of Richard Neville the "Kingmaker", a Yorkist turned Lancastrian during the Wars of the Roses who was killed at the Battle of Barnet (7) |
| SITTINGBULL | Native American chief who led the Sioux in the Battle of the Little Bighorn (7,4) |
| MONTANA | In which US state is the north entrance to Yellowstone National Park and the site of the Battle of the Little Big Horn, in which Custer was defeated? (7) |
| CROCKETT | Davy ?, US frontiersman killed at the Battle of the Alamo in 1836 |
| HOTSPUR | Nickname of the English soldier Sir Henry Percy, killed at the Battle of Shrewsbury in 1403 (7) |
| LASTSTAND | The Battle of the Little Bighorn, also known as Custer's _ _ (4,5) |
| ABSALOM | Third son of King David, who rebelled against his father and was killed at the Battle of the Wood of Ephraim (7) |
| LEONIDAS | King of Sparta who was killed at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C. (8) |
| ALAIN | Jehan ..., French organist and composer of Litanies, who was killed at the Battle of Saumur in 1940 (5) |
| THIRD | Ordinal number of King Richard, killed at the battle of Bosworth Field in 1485 (5) |
| MORDRED | In Arthurian legend, the king's illegitimate son, killed at the battle of Camlann (7) |
| CUSTERSLASTSTAND | Name given to the Battle of the Little Bighorn |
| JOHNSTON | Albert Sidney --, Confederate general killed at the Battle of Shiloh in 1862 |
| LORDCLIFFORD | Character in Henry VI, Part III killed at the battle of Towton (4,8) |
| BOWIE | US frontiersman killed at the Battle of Alamo, Jim ... |
