- WAR
- Men make ___ to get attention - Walker
- Conflict
- Endless card game
- Hell, to Sherman
- Trojan, for one
- Old Maid alternative
- All-out fight
- Hostile encounter
- It's hell
- Two-player card game
- Peace, per Big Brother
- Card game that is (aptly) arbitrary and seemingly neverending
- Common video game milieu
- Fighting chance?
- What the second letter in 57-Across stands for
- It's hell, it's said
- Subject of many a protest song
- Card game introduced to casinos in the 1990s
- Peace, in an Orwellian slogan
- 1914 headline
- Kids' card game
- End This ___ (bumper sticker)
- That mad game the world so loves to play according to Jonathan Swift
- ___ Pigs (Black Sabbath classic)
- ___ does not determine who is right - only who is left. (Bertrand Russell)
- Afghanistan ___
- Common video game setting
- Fisticuffs
- Iraq ___
- Kind of chest
- ___ paint
- Killing time?
- Hostilities
- Game of sheer luck
- Series of skirmishes
- Ares's realm
- Combat
- Simple card game
- Affair of Ares
- Strategy-free card game
- Theater goings-on
- One of the Four Horsemen
- Canadian ___ Veteran
- Old cabinet department
- Armed conflict
- Open hostilities
- Sherman's "hell"
- Kids' card game for two
- Politics with bloodshed: Mao Zedong
- Sun Tzu's area of expertise
- Cabinet department that split in 1947
- Campaigner's contest (or the start of a 1930s movie actor's split personality)
- Card game requiring no skill
- Child's card game
- Highest-card-wins game
- Kings nearly always win at this
- What aces win a lot at, in two senses
- Nothing but a heartbreaker, per a 1970 hit
- See 23-Across
- See 41-Across
- Like some talent and meat
- To know it "is to know that there is still madness in this world", per LBJ
- Kind of bride or chest
- It's hell to Sherman
- Realm of Mars
- Seemingly interminable card game
- The ___ of the Worlds
- This means ___!
- Card game for two
- Major event of 1812
- Mindless card game
- Wouk's "The Winds of ___"
- The ___ of the Worlds (H. G. Wells novel)
- Battle, and then some
- Interminable card game
- Major fight
- Ares' area
- Big battle
- Repetitive card game
- Dove's dislike
- International trouble
- Severe skirmish
- Civil ___
- Part of the name of four Preakness winners
- Cry or paint preceder
- Kind of baby or bonnet
- What the United Nations hopes to prevent
- Cabinet department until 1947
- Numbers game?
- Serious conflict
- What is it good for, absolutely nothing!
- Children's card game
- One of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
- Tolstoy title word
- Type of paint or party
- Word before chest or cry
- Saving Private Ryan backdrop
- The Naked and the Dead subject
- It's hell, axiomatically
- Word with cry or baby
- ___ of the Roses
- Member of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
- Part of WWII
- Word with game or room
- Cabinet department phased out in 1947
- Declaration of 1941
- Major conflict
- Fox News posits there is one on Christmas
- 1976 Bob Marley tune about the inevitably violent consequences of racism
- According to Edwin Starr, it's good for absolutely nothing
- Mars's domain
- *Military endeavor*
- Even if it's civil, it's not civil
- Unfortunate fact of life in Sudan
- According to the song it's good for absolutely nothing
- Edwin Starr hit
- Edwin Starr hit originally recorded by The Temptations
- Edwin Starr banger
- Bellicose card game
- Armed hostilities
- Kid's game
- Kids' pastimes
- Kind of paint or party
- The means ___!
- __ and Peace
- Kind of game or story
- Struggle
- Basic card game
- Civil __
- Ironically, it may be civil
- Peace's opposite
- All's fair in it
- Kind of games
- Kind of party or story
- Belligerent state
- There never was a good one, according to Franklin
- Hawks support it
- Tedious card game
- Much too serious a thing to be left to the military: Clemenceau
- 1970 Edwin Starr protest song
- Hawk's concern
- Serious hostilities
- This means __!
- Big conflict
- Cold __
- Gulf __
- Hawk's cause
- Original Cabinet department renamed Defense in 1949
- Card game with a belligerent name
- 1970 hit that asks about its title, "What is it good for?"
- It may precede a treaty
- The Chocolate __: classic young-adult novel
- Card game for two, usually
- Wouk's "The Winds of __"
- Mars' realm
- Price __
- Sun Tzu subject
- It may be declared
- High-card-wins game
- String of engagements
- The Hurt Locker backdrop
- __Games: 1983 Matthew Broderick film
- 1917 subject
- Serious declaration
- __ movie
- __ on Drugs
- 1970 #1 hit with the line "What is it good for?"
- Card-beats-card game
- Card-vs.-card game
- Game of luck
- Journalist Hemingway's assignment
- Target of some Bob Dylan songs
- All the Light We Cannot See backdrop
- Word with bonds or games
- Realm of Ares and Mars
- One, two, three, four, I declare a thumb __!
- Backdrop of many novels set in the 1940s
- Tug-of-__
- Realm of Ares
- Headline of 1914
- Tolstoy opener
- Card game
- Subject for Clausewitz
- No-skill card game
- Machiavelli subject
- Word before baby or bonnet
- All-out conflict
- Domain of 78 Down
- Mars' domain
- Battle field
- Hawk's advocacy
- Serious struggle
- Word before cloud or cry
- Former Cabinet department
- __ games
- Big fight
- Tolstoy topic
- Word before god or games
- The __ Cry (Salvation Army publication)
- Tolstoy subject
- Word before horse or hero
- Tolstoy title subject
- Iliad activity
- 49 Across setting
- Large-scale conflict
- Mars' concern
- __ games (military practice)
- Cabinet department before Defense
- Cabinet department that ended in 1947
- Hawk's hope
- Saturn : agriculture :: Mars : ___
- The __ Cry (Salvation Army magazine)
- Tolstoy title topic
- Nothing is easy in ___: Eisenhower
- Ares's domain
- Big international conflict
- Easy-to-learn card game
- Type of horse
- With 51-Down, hot spot
- Skill-less game
- What protesters may protest
- ___ Admiral (1937 Triple Crown winner)
- Go fish alternative
- Word with party or game
- It can cause a draft
- It's good for "absolutely nothing," according to a 1970 #1 hit
- What a dove despises
- Part of POW
- Word with baby or story
- Hawk's desire
- Tug-of-___ (contest of strength)
- Subject of Sherman's famous remark.
- Total destruction.
- Coin is the sinews of ___.—Rabelais.
- Contest by force.
- Tolstoy's subject.
- World scourge.
- Secy. Royall's field.
- Cold ___.
- Military science.
- Sometimes hot, sometimes cold.
- Man's inhumanity to man.
- Word in a Tolstoy title.
- General havoc.
- Its modern name is "police action."
- Contend.
- Man o' ___.
- 1941 headline.
- Ares' chick.—Aristophanes.
- Instance of man's inhumanity to man.
- Summons to the Four Horsemen.
- Cabinent post now part of Defense.
- Former Cabinet post.
- Martial affair.
- All hell. according to Sherman.
- Mars' specialty.
- Synonym for "hell."
- ___ horse.
- Man's history.
- Price ___.
- Front-page news.
- ___ bonnet.
- Cold or hot topic.
- Hawk's cry.
- Strife.
- Hell.
- Man of ___
- Civil or Crimean
- Crimean or Boer
- ___ whoop
- Civil or Punic
- Cold or price
- Part of W. W.
- Trojan or Crimean
- World or Boer
- Kind of bride or bonnet
- ___ of the Worlds
- ___ cry (slogan)
- ___ of 1812
- Kind of horse
- Cold or Civil
- MDCCCXII event
- Crimean ___: 1853–56
- Kind of club or path
- In which Brian Boru was slain
- ___ of nerves
- ___ Games, 1969 play
- Kind of cry or path
- What F.D.R. said he hated
- What Mars never barred
- Whitman's "The Real ___"
- Anathema to doves
- Kind of bond
- Kind of dance
- Kind of horse or ship
- Kind of monger
- Kind of path or lord
- Kind of plane or path
- Hawk's delight
- Apocalypse omen
- Event in 1812
- Cold chaser
- Start of a Tolstoy title
- The ___ of the Worlds: Wells
- Ares' forte
- Trojan or Civil follower
- Tug of ___
- What Mars never bars
- Fun and games for 82 Down
- Head or horse head
- Shelley's "statesman's game"
- Kind of dance or horse
- What Aristophanes called "Ares' chick"
- Kind of baby or bride
- Rough conflict
- Subject for 47 Across
- 1812, e.g.
- Kind of bride
- TV's "Love and ___"
- Disturber of the peace
- Jihad
- Revolutionary, e.g.
- Type of paint
- West Point subject
- The Red Badge of Courage topic
- Headline with an exclamation point
- Wouk topic
- Gulf ___
- Kind of chest or paint
- Saving Private Ryan subject
- Area of Mars
- Dull card game
- Kind of dance or bride
- The most successful ___ seldom pays for its losses: Thomas Jefferson
- What happens when language fails, per Margaret Atwood
- Game that's 100% luck
- Mindless card game for two
- Dove's aversion
- General Assembly topic
- Word that can follow the start of 15-, 18-, 34-, 48- or 55-Across
- Failed negotiation result
- Kind of cloud
- Part of 46-Down
- The blood-red blossom of ___ ...: Tennyson
- Reason for restrictions
- Word before cry or baby
- Easy card game
- More than a brawl
- ___ correspondent
- Congressional declaration
- Declaration of Congress
- Kind of cabinet
- ___ powers
- 1970 #1 hit with the lyric "huh, yeah, What is it good for?"
- Realm of 3-Down
- Subject in Article I Section 8 of the Constitution
- With 59-Across, battle planning site
- The child of Pride, according to Jonathan Swift
- The trade of kings: Dryden
- That mad game the world so loves to play, to Jonathan Swift
- Sun Tzu's "The Art of ___"
- Campaign setting
- Card game for 11-Down
- Civil ___ (event that prompted The New York Times to begin publishing Sunday issues)
- Drug ___
- Huge conflict
- It was hell, to Sherman
- See 3-Down
- ___ Emblem (2002 Kentucky Derby winner)
- *Edwin Starr, 1970
- Classic one-word headline
- Collect-all-the-cards game
- Hell, to General Sherman
- It's good for "absolutely nothing" according to a 1970 hit
- See 48-Across
- Something played out in a theater
- Vietnam ___
- One of the W's in W.W. I
- See 9-Across
- What's broken out of the answers to the starred clues?
- A defeat for humanity, per Pope John Paul II
- See 111-Down
- The second "W" of W.W. II
- Game of pure chance
- It's conducted in a theater
- Man-o'-___ (old battleship)
- Word with cry or crime
- ... let slip the dogs of ___: Shak.
- Card game that can go on and on
- Subject of 12/8/1941 headlines
- What polemology is the study of
- Called for
- Word in 12/8/41 headlines
- God created ___ so that Americans would learn geography (line attributed to Mark Twain)
- ___ has no use for free speech: Julius Caesar
- ___ is hell
- Newspaper headline of 12/8/1941
- Subject for "Dunkirk" or "Apocalypse Now"
- Topic for Sun Tzu
- Major operation?
- I have seen ___. I have seen ___ on land and sea. ... I hate ___.: F.D.R.
- ___ is mainly a catalog of blunders: Churchill
- Churchill ___ Rooms (London tourist attraction)
- General practice?
- What truth is said to be the first casualty of
- If we don't end ___, ___ will end us: H. G. Wells
- Domain of Mars
- Game with the objective of winning all the cards
- It may be revolutionary
- Mindless two-player card game
- What games like chess, Stratego and Risk simulate
- Word with horse or hero
- A symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal, according to John Steinbeck
- Foyle's ___ (British TV drama)
- Epic backdrop, maybe
- It's good for "absolutely nothing," per a 1970 #1 hit
- Korean or Peloponnesian, e.g.
- Boring collect-all-the-cards game
- When doves cry?
- Word with cry or paint
- Tolstoy title start
- Major battle
- Big skirmish
- Huge fight
- Giant conflict
- Peace's counterpart
- ___ bonnet (sacred Native headdress)
- 1812 event
- Do battle
- Giant fight
- Huge battle
- Serious fight
- Opposite of 31-Across
- Spill the Wine band
- Eric Burdon band
- Why Can't We Be Friends? band
- Low Rider band
- The Cisco Kid band
- ___! Huh! Good god, y'all! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing!
- Only the dead have seen the end of ___: Santayana
- Only the dead have seen the end of ___: Plato
- Series of engagements
- Spanish-American, say
- Cabinet department, 1789-1947
- Korean, say
- Mexican or Korean
- Ares' realm
- Maleness means ___: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Boer or Trojan
- Clinton has approved a treaty to create the world's first permanent __ crimes court
- Wag the Dog ploy
- ___ is what happens when language fails: Margaret Atwood
- Card game of pure chance
- Class ___
- General concern?
- Russian-Ukrainian ___ (conflict that involved a Russian invasion in February, 2022)
- A cowardly escape from the problems of peace, according to Thomas Mann
- Something to be outgrown, per Alice Walker
- General and private concern?
- One was civil in America
- This means _____!
- Desert Storm, e.g.
- Failure of diplomacy
- It may have a general assembly?
- Wouk's "The Winds of _____"
- It was once civil in America
- Where there's a general assembly?
- Result of a diplomacy failure, sometimes
- Entente interrupter
- All-out hostility
- Dire declaration
- Mars' thing
- Ten years' or hundred years' event
- It's more than a mere battle
- Protest topic, often
- Raw reversal?
- The ___ of the Roses
- Protest subject
- Combative card game
- Horrific conflict
- It may be civil yet raging
- Diplomacy alternative
- General purpose?
- It's full of battles
- Part of WWI
- Battle's big brother
- General battle
- It once caused a draft
- Prolonged conflict
- U-turn from peace
- Word with "cry"
- Ares' domain
- Game with many ties
- ___ of attrition
- ___ and Peace
- Child's first card game, maybe
- Domain of 69-Across
- Subject of "1917"
- All's fair in love and this
- Card game of chance
- Card game that's all luck
- ___ and Peace (Tolstoy novel)
- It's good for absolutely nothing, in a protest song
- Pacifists oppose it
- Avengers: Infinity ___
- H.G. Wells' "The ___ of the Worlds"
- Military conflict
- Boer for one
- Word before head or chest
- See 8 Down
- 10 years or 100 years event
- Active hostility
- It may be cold
- General assembly?
- Major undertaking?
- Battle of nations
- In song, it's good for absolutely nothing
- Type of correspondent
- The Hurt Locker subject
- Kind of cry or paint
- Type of cry or paint
- All's fair in it, it's said
- Word with "dance" or "party"
- Symbolic dove's aversion
- Edwin Starr protest song
- Domain of Mars and Ares
- General activity
- Dunkirk movie genre
- A treaty may end one
- Word before bride or paint
- Edwin Starr asked, "What is it good for?"
- Word after "Civil" or "Infinity" in the MCU
- Captain America: Civil ___
- All-luck card game
- Luck-based card game
- Make love not -
- Civil, for one
- It can be civil
- It may cause a draft
- With "is" and 10 Down, words from Sherman
- Common Shakespearean theme
- It can only be postponed to the advantage of others, according to Machiavelli
- Society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults, per Karl Marlantes
- What a pacifist opposes
- Full Metal Jacket subject
- Area for Ares
- It may be uncivil even if it's civil
- Fight
- It might cause a draft
- Hell, per Sherman
- Cold or flame follower
- Game in which twos lose
- Cause of a draft, perhaps
- Doves despise it
- Film category
- Game in which no decisions are made
- Group of raiders*
- Field for Mars
- Series of campaigns
