| CARMINE | The colour of Crimean bananas (7) |
| FLORENCE | The Lady With The Lamp was the nickname of Crimean War nurse, ... Nightingale |
| OCEAN | Officer in middle of Crimean Wars is all at sea (5) |
| KRIMMER | The grey or black furry fleece of young lambs from the Crimean area |
| SCUTARI | Former name for Uskudar near Istanbul, where Florence Nightingale worked during the Crimean War (7) |
| USKUDAR | District in Istanbul formerly Scutari, where Florence Nightingale nursed during the Crimean War (7) |
| BRIGADE | 1854 poem by Alfred Tennyson documenting an event in the Crimean War (3,6,2,3,5,7) |
| UKRAINE | Country in dispute with Russia over Crimean peninsula (7) |
| MERCIAN | Of Offa's kingdom; Crimean (anag.) |
| TOLSTOY | Novelist who fought in the Crimean War |
| MEANDER | Wander around Crimean border, having lost trio from the west |
| BALACLAVA | Battle of ---, part of the Siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War, featuring the Charge of the Light Brigade (9) |
| CAFFA | Name by which the Crimean port and resort city of Feodosiya was known at the time of the Black Death |
| BLACKSEA | The Crimean peninsula is on the north coast of this body of water (5,3) |
| BALAKLAVA | Indecisive battle of the Crimean War, inspiration for Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade (9) |
| CARDIGAN | Earl who led the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War (8) |
| BRITISHREDCROSS | Charity founded in 1870 in the aftermath of the Crimean War (7,3,5) |
| YALTA | City on the south coast of the Crimean Peninsula, surrounded by the Black Sea (5) |
| ALMA | River in Crimea, scene of the first battle of the Crimean War in 1854 (4) |
| LIGHT | Crimean War catastrophe, the Charge of the ... Brigade |
