| CUSTER | Cavalry commander killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, 1876 (6) |
| COMANCHE | Horse who was the sole documented survivor of the US cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876) (8) |
| NELSON | Horatio, British naval commander killed at Trafalgar (6) |
| HAROLD | King killed at the Battle of Hastings (6) |
| CRAZYHORSE | Leader of the Oglala Lakota who took up arms against the US Federal government, leading a war party at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in June 1876 |
| GORDON | Charles George ___, British general killed at the siege of Khartoum in 1885 (6) |
| CEDRIC | Diggory who (spoiler alert!) is killed at the end of "Goblet of Fire" |
| WARWICK | 16th Earl of -; title of Richard Neville the "Kingmaker", a Yorkist turned Lancastrian during the Wars of the Roses who was killed at the Battle of Barnet (7) |
| AYRTON | Driver killed at the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix, ... Senna (6) |
| SEVENTH | Cavalry regiment Lt Col George Custer was serving in when he died at the Battle of the Little Bighorn (7) |
| SITTINGBULL | Native American chief who led the Sioux in the Battle of the Little Bighorn (7,4) |
| ULRICH | Mr Graf, Swiss racer who won a 50cc GP in Yugoslavia before being killed at the same circuit a year later. (6) |
| CUSTERSLASTSTAND | Name given to the Battle of the Little Bighorn |
| LASTSTAND | The Battle of the Little Bighorn, also known as Custer's _ _ (4,5) |
| HOTSPUR | Nickname of the English soldier Sir Henry Percy, killed at the Battle of Shrewsbury in 1403 (7) |
| LEONIDAS | King of Sparta who was killed at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C. (8) |
| CROCKETT | Davy ?, US frontiersman killed at the Battle of the Alamo in 1836 |
| THIRD | Ordinal number of King Richard, killed at the battle of Bosworth Field in 1485 (5) |
| MORDRED | In Arthurian legend, the king's illegitimate son, killed at the battle of Camlann (7) |
| ABSALOM | Third son of King David who rebelled against his father and was killed at the Battle of EphraimWood (7) |
