| INKERMAN | 1854 battle of the Crimean War (8) |
| ALMA | 1854 battle of the Crimean War (4) |
| BALACLAVA | 1854 battle of the Crimean War (9) |
| BALAKLAVA | Indecisive battle of the Crimean War, inspiration for Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade (9) |
| BRITISHREDCROSS | Charity founded in 1870 in the aftermath of the Crimean War (7,3,5) |
| NIGHTINGALE | Nursing pioneer of the Crimean War, Florence ... |
| POTEMKIN | Catherine the Great’s lover who achieved a peaceful annexation of the Crimean peninsula in 1783 |
| CARDIGAN | Earl who led the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War (8) |
| FLORENCE | And 19 English nurse whose work during the Crimean War laid the foundations of modern nursing (8,11) |
| VICTORIA | British monarch on the throne during the Crimean War (8) |
| THELIGHT | 1854 poem by Alfred Tennyson documenting an event in the Crimean War (3,6,2,3,5,7) |
| THEODORO | Greek principality in the Crimean peninsula, conquered by the Ottomans in the fifteenth century (8) |
| BLACKSEA | The Crimean peninsula is on the north coast of this body of water (5,3) |
| YALTA | City on the south coast of the Crimean Peninsula, surrounded by the Black Sea (5) |
| SEVASTOPOL | The largest city of the Crimean peninsula |
| RIME | The frosty look of the Crimean region (4) |
| PARIS | Site of the 11 that ended the Crimean War (5) |
| RAGLAN | Commander of the British troops in the Crimean War (6) |
| LUCAN | Earl of --, British commander of cavalry in the Crimean War (5) |
| CHARGE | - of the Light Brigade, famous military action in the Crimean War (6) |
