| CIVILWAR | War between the states |
| AMERICANCIVILWAR | War between the states |
| GETTYSBURG | Where Lee-siders took a pounding in the War between the States (10) |
| ACW | War between the states, acronym |
| LURIE | Pulitzer-winning professor who penned Don't Tell the Grown-ups, The War Between the Tates, books for children and also edited The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales (5) |
| FALKLANDS | Name of the war between the United Kingdom and Argentina featured in multiple films including 2011's The Iron Lady (9) |
| MARILYNBELL | September 9, 1954: Toronto-born long distance swimmer who at just 16 years old, becomes the first person to swim across Lake Ontario. Amid a newspaper war between the Toronto Daily Star and the Toront |
| MADELEY | Shirley Bingham in The War Between The Land And The Sea (4,7) |
| RUTH | Shirley Bingham in The War Between The Land And The Sea (4,7) |
| ADRIAN | Sir Jonathan Hynes in The War Between The Land And The Sea (6,5) |
| LUKIS | Sir Jonathan Hynes in The War Between The Land And The Sea (6,5) |
| GUGU | Salt in 2025 mini-series The War Between The Land And The Sea (4,6-3) |
| MBATHARAW | Salt in 2025 mini-series The War Between The Land And The Sea (4,6-3) |
| TATES | "The War Between the ___" (Alison Lurie novel) |
| ALISON | "The War Between the Tates" novelist Lurie |
| ALISONLURIE | Author of novels The War Between the Tates and Foreign Affairs |
| ANDTHESEA | The War Between The Land ___ , upcoming Doctor Who spinoff with Russell Tovey (3,3,3) |
| AWARE | Conscious of war between the capitals of Albania and Estonia (5) |
| FALKLANDISLANDS | Site of a war between the U.K. and Argentina: 2 wds |
| COD | Fish in a series of wars between the U.K. and Iceland |
