| STIRRUP | The tool that helped the Normans win the Battle of Hastings |
| LOSES | Wins the battle of the bulge, ironically |
| BOOGIEOOGIEOOGIE | Top ten hit that helped the disco group A Taste of Honey win the Grammy Award for Best New Artist of 1978 |
| BAEDEKER | German publisher who established a series of namesake red travel guidebooks, including a Great Britain edition that helped the Luftwaffe raid five historic and culturally significant English cities in |
| PIMA | Tribe that helped the USDA grow experimental cotton |
| SPANNER | The tool that gets over the gap? (7) |
| SEESAW | Notice the tool that will make a well-balanced board (6) |
| CLOSES | Obviously company head doesn't win the battle to stay in business (6) |
| REASON | Why Robert Reich thinks liberals will win the battle for America? (6) |
| SCULL | Boat, or the tool that moves it |
| OVERCOME | Win the battle |
| FALLOW | Species of deer introduced into the UK by the Normans in the 11th century (6) |
| HASTINGS | Battle of _, 1066 conflict between the English and the Normans (8) |
| HEREWARD | ___ the Wake, Anglo-Saxon nobleman who defended the Isle of Ely against the Normans |
| HEREWARDTHEWAKE | Anglo-Saxon nobleman who, from the Isle of Ely, led resistance to the Normans after their 1066 invasion of England (8,3,4) |
| EASTSUSSEX | County in the south of England; site of The Battle of Hastings (4,6) |
| BERKHAMSTED | Historic market town in Hertfordshire, site of the Anglo-Saxon surrender to the Normans in 1066 (11) |
| BAYEUX | Where the Normans stitched up the Saxons? (6) |
| MOTTEANDBAILEY | Style of castle commonly built by the Normans (5,3,6) |
| DARCY | Part of the 'Salford Hundred' given by William The Conqueror to Roger of Poitou for his role in the Norman Conquest of England; ___ Lever, is now an area of Bolton (5) |
