| POWHATAN | Native American chief who was the father of Pocahontas (8) |
| BIGELK | Omaha chief who was an ally of the U.S. in the War of 1812 |
| KEY | Chief who was leader of New Zealand island (3) |
| HEAD | Chief who was compelled to surround the East (4) |
| HIAWATHA | Native American chief who, together with the Great Peacemaker Deganawida, founded the Iroquois Confederacy (8) |
| REDCLOUD | Native American chief who successfully resisted the Bozeman Trail development to the newly discovered Montana goldfields (3,5) |
| COMANCHE | Native American Chief, possessed of firm head of hair (8) |
| SITTINGBULL | Native American chief who led the Sioux in the Battle of the Little Bighorn (7,4) |
| ONONDAGA | Native American chief would never, never return (8) |
| SAGAMORE | Native American chief upset about reactionary slogan used by Trump (8) |
| PONTIAC | Native American chief who led a struggle against the British around the Great Lakes in the 1760s (7) |
| MCGILLIVRAY | Alexander, Native American chief who completed the Treaty of New York in 1790 (11) |
| GERONIMO | Celebrated Native American chief (8) |
| ETHELRED | ___ the Unready, Anglo-Saxon English king who was the father of Edward the Confessor (8) |
| FARBAUTI | Jotun (giant) of Norse mythology who was the father of Loki (8) |
| PHILIPII | King of Macedonia who was the father of Alexander the Great |
| HYPERION | Mythological Greek Titan who was the father of Eos, Helios and Selene (8) |
| LANCELOT | Arthurian knight who was the father of Galahad (8) |
| HAMILCAR | --- Barca, Carthaginian general who was the father of Hannibal (8) |
| JACOB | In the Old Testament, the son of Isaac who was the father of the 12 patriarchs of Israel (5) |
