| BALAKLAVA | Indecisive battle of the Crimean War, inspiration for Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade (9) |
| BALACLAVA | An indecisive battle of 1854 at this Crimean location inspired a famous poem by Tennyson (9) |
| LIGHTBRIGADE | Tennyson's "Charge of the ___" |
| SHALLOT | An onion for Tennyson's lady (7) |
| DESERTISLE | Setting for Tennyson's "Enoch Arden" |
| ALMA | River in Crimea, scene of the first battle of the Crimean War in 1854 (4) |
| DYSENTERY | What, in the Crimean War, killed ten times more British troops than did battle wounds? (9) |
| ALDERSHOT | Hampshire town, established as major military base during the Crimean War (9) |
| INKERMAN | 1854 battle of the Crimean War (8) |
| BRITISHREDCROSS | Charity founded in 1870 in the aftermath of the Crimean War (7,3,5) |
| CARDIGAN | Earl who led the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War (8) |
| NIGHTINGALE | Nursing pioneer of the Crimean War, Florence ... |
| TENNYSON | Alfred, Lord -; poet whose works include The Lady of Shalott, The Charge of the Light Brigade and Idylls of the King (8) |
| CHARGE | - of the Light Brigade, famous military action in the Crimean War (6) |
| MAUD | Traditional grey plaid of a Scottish shepherd; or, the title poem of a collection by Alfred Tennyson that also includes The Charge of the Light Brigade (4) |
| YALTA | City on the south coast of the Crimean Peninsula, surrounded by the Black Sea (5) |
| CRIMEAN | - War; period of conflict including the Charge of the Light Brigade (7) |
| ERROL | He burst onto the world's screens starring in the films Captain Blood and The Charge Of The Light Brigade; he was Tasmania's ... Flynn |
| POTEMKIN | Catherine the Great’s lover who achieved a peaceful annexation of the Crimean peninsula in 1783 |
| VALLEYOFDEATH | "Into the -- (14) Rode -- (17)" (Tennyson: "The Charge of the Light Brigade") (6,2,5) |
