| REENACTS | Performs in costume, as a Civil War battle |
| DRESSUP | Adopt costume as Dick initially about to get Cat to turn |
| RESTAGED | Enacted again, as a Civil War battle |
| RECREATE | Act out, as a Civil War battle |
| REENACT | Stage, as a Civil War battle |
| STAGE | Perform, as a Civil War reenactment |
| CHATTANOOGA | City in eastern Tennessee, site of a Civil War battle in 1863 |
| NASEBY | Northamptonshire village, the site of a Civil War battle (6) |
| POSTMASTER | A teacher after a job as a civil servant (10) |
| STANSTED | Former US Air Force bomber base in Essex repurposed as a civil airport in 1966 (8) |
| COSTARICA | This Central American republic disbanded its army in 1948 and, unlike many in its region, hasn't had a civil war since (5,4) |
| BIAFRA | Region of Nigeria which declared independence in 1967, causing a civil war in which two million civilians died (6) |
| KHMERROUGE | The Cambodian communist party which seized power in a civil war in 1975 |
| MUSKET | Prop in a Civil War reenactment |
| SYRIA | Country in the midst of a civil war since 2011 |
| LEBANON | Mediterranean country in a civil war 1975-1990 (7) |
| CHARLES | The name of a British king who ended up on the wrong side of a civil war |
| STEPHEN | English king who fought a civil war with his cousin Matilda in the 12th century (7) |
| NERO | His death sparked a civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors |
| GREECE | European country which had a civil war from 1946-1949 as communist-led forces tried to overthrow the government (6) |