| 100% | CUSTER | 6 | George Armstrong —, US lieutenant colonel killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876 |
| 50% | CROCKETT | 8 | Davy —, US frontiersman killed at the Battle of the Alamo in 1836 |
| 47% | CUSTER | 6 | Casualty at the Battle of the Little Bighorn |
| 45% | LITTLE | 6 | & 1D Battle of the —, 1876 conflict at which General George A Custer was killed |
| 42% | LEONIDAS | 8 | King of Sparta killed at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC |
| 41% | GORDON | 6 | Charles George —, British general killed at the siege of Khartoum in 1885 |
| 40% | GATES | 5 | Horatio —, British-born US general defeated at the Battle of Camden in 1780 |
| 38% | MEADE | 5 | George —, Union Army Major General in the American Civil War who defeated Robert E Lee at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863 |
| 38% | NELSON | 6 | Admiral killed at the Battle of Trafalgar |
| 38% | MEADE | 5 | George ___, general at the Battle of Chancellorsville |
| 38% | BOSWORTH | 8 | & 18D Battle of the Wars of the Roses at which Richard III was killed in 1485 |
| 36% | RENO | 4 | The Battle of Little Bighorn major |
| 35% | CRAZY | 5 | With 44-Across, Oglala Lakota leader who helped win the Battle of the Little Bighorn against General Custer |
| 34% | VICTORY | 7 | HMS —, Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 |
| 34% | PADUCAH | 7 | City in Kentucky, US, at the confluence of the Ohio and Tennessee Rivers |
| 34% | SURRENDER | 9 | To give in, especially at the end of a battle |
| 33% | MAYO | 4 | Cinco de ___, festival celebrated in Mexico to commemorate the victory at the Battle of Puebla |
| 33% | ATTU | 4 | The Battle of ___, a famed battle between U.S and Japanese forces in Alaska |
| 33% | UGGS | 4 | Boots at the center of a recent U.S./Australia trademark battle |
| 33% | RODNEY | 6 | George —, British admiral; victor over the French in the Battle of the Saintes of 1782 |
| 32% | SPEE | 4 | German vice admiral killed in W.W. I's Battle of the Falklands |
| 32% | JOHNMOORE | 9 | Glasgow-born British army lieutenant-general mortally wounded in the Battle of Corunna in 1809 |
| 32% | BUFFALO | 7 | US port in New York State at the eastern end of Lake Erie |
| 32% | DULUTH | 6 | Port in Minnesota, US, at the west end of Lake Superior |
| 31% | ALL | 3 | “___ We Imagine as Light” (winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes in May, 2024) |
| 31% | NORTH | 5 | Oliver —, former US Marine Corps lieutenant colonel; 2018-19 president of the NRA |
| 31% | JFK | 3 | Initials of the US president who was elected at age 43 in 1960 |
| 31% | BUFFALO | 7 | Port in New York State, US, at the eastern end of Lake Erie |
| 31% | PRIMETIMEEMMY | 13 | What each of the programs in this puzzle has won at least once |