| MORDRED | In Arthurian legend, the king's illegitimate son, killed at the battle of Camlann (7) |
| ABSALOM | Who, David's favourite son, killed Amnon for raping his sister? (7) |
| OBERON | In old legend, the king of the fairies (6) |
| AVALON | Legendary island to which King Arthur was conveyed after being mortally wounded at the Battle of Camlann (6) |
| INANE | Silly son killed cuckoo (5) |
| 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) |
| HOTSPUR | Nickname of the English soldier Sir Henry Percy, killed at the Battle of Shrewsbury in 1403 (7) |
| GALAHAD | In Arthurian legend. the son of Lancelot and Elaine who was the most virtuous knight of the Round Table (7) |
| CAMELOT | In Arthurian legend, the English town where Arthur's court was situated (7) |
| ERASMUS | Illegitimate son of a priest who wrote The Freedom of Will (7) |
| HAROLDI | Illegitimate son of Canute the Great nicknamed "Harefoot" (6,1) |
| VIVIAN | In Arthurian legend, the mistress of Merlin, sometimes identified with the Lady of the Lake |
| LEONIDAS | King of Sparta who was killed at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C. (8) |
| CROCKETT | Davy ?, US frontiersman killed at the Battle of the Alamo in 1836 |
| CUSTER | George Armstrong ?, US lieutenant colonel killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876 |
| 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) |
| SIRGALAHAD | In Arthurian legend, the most virtuous knight of the Round Table (3,7) |
| EDMUND | A son of Aethelred the Unready; Gloucesters illegitimate son in King Lear;or, a sibling in The Chronicles of Narnia (6) |
| JOHNSTON | Albert Sidney --, Confederate general killed at the Battle of Shiloh in 1862 |
