| CUSTER | General who died at battle of Little Bighorn |
| JAMESWOLFE | British general who died in the hour of victory when capturing Quebec from the French in 1759 |
| JACKSON | Confederate general who died after accidentally being shot by his own troops and later contracting pneumonia |
| GENERALCUSTER | Equestrian at the Battle of Little Bighorn |
| HORSE | Native American leader (c. 1842-1877) who fought in the Battle of Little Bighorn; Sioux name, Ta-Sunko-Witko (5,5) |
| CRAZY | Native American leader (c. 1842-1877) who fought in the Battle of Little Bighorn; Sioux name, Ta-Sunko-Witko (5,5) |
| RENO | The Battle of Little Bighorn major |
| SITTINGBULL | Sioux chief during the Battle of Little Bighorn (7,4) |
| MONTANA | Battle of Little Bighorn state |
| EDGED | Barely beat, at battle of bands |
| LOSES | What second place at battle of the bands does |
| BARS | Watering holes for both sides at Battle of Poitiers (4) |
| THETHINREDLINE | Sutherland Highlanders at Battle of Balaclava (3,4,3,4) |
| BUSTERKEATON | Actor embodied outcome of Little Bighorn, according to Spooner (6,6) |
| SITTING | Battle of Little Big Horn victor, Sioux chief ... Bull |
| KELLOGG | Surname of brothers John and Will, who founded a food manufacturing company in 1906 at Battle Creek, Michigan (7) |
| HASTINGS | Laugh at police operations at battle site (8) |
| MAMACASS | US singer who died at the age of 32 in July 1974 where four years later Keith Moon of The Who also died (4,4) |
| CRAZYHORSE | Leader of the Oglala Lakota who led a war party at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876 |
| COMANCHE | Horse who was the sole documented survivor of the US cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876) (8) |
