| VETERAN | Warhorse showed nerve at battle (7) |
| COURAGE | Our going into prison showed nerve (7) |
| BOTTLEUP | Hold back showing nerve at college (6,2) |
| STEELYARDS | Balances more than one pound; needs nerve at the start (10) |
| KELLOGG | Surname of brothers John and Will, who founded a food manufacturing company in 1906 at Battle Creek, Michigan (7) |
| BUGATTI | Racing car may get on one's nerves at halftime (7) |
| CHIASMA | Intersection or crossing-over, as of the optic nerves at the base of the brain (7) |
| MARENGO | Napoleon Bonaparte's famous Arabian grey warhorse, who died at the age of 38 (7) |
| CHARGER | Electrical device - old warhorse (7) |
| COURSER | Warhorse cures, or is destroyed (7) |
| OLDHAND | One with lots of experience, warhorse (3,4) |
| HASTINGS | Laugh at police operations at battle site (8) |
| EDGED | Barely beat, at battle of bands |
| CUSTER | General who died at battle of Little Bighorn |
| TRAFALGAR | Sailor gets artist to wave flag at battle site (9) |
| LOSES | What second place at battle of the bands does |
| ANCESTRAL | Handed down from lancers at battle (9) |
| BARS | Watering holes for both sides at Battle of Poitiers (4) |
| MIA | Lost at battle, as a P.O.W. |
| THETHINREDLINE | Sutherland Highlanders at Battle of Balaclava (3,4,3,4) |
