Referring Clues

• Card game for two
• Wouk topic
• "This means ___!"
• Gulf ___
• Kind of chest or paint
• "Saving Private Ryan" subject
• Area of Mars
• Kind of dance or bride
• Dull card game
• Former Cabinet department
• Word that can follow the start of 15-, 18-, 34-, 48- or 55-Across
• Dove's aversion
• Simple card game
• General Assembly topic
• Part of 46-Down
• Combat
• Kids' card game
• Children's card game
• Kind of cloud
• Failed negotiation result
• "The blood-red blossom of ___ ...": Tennyson
• Reason for restrictions
• Word before cry or baby
• Conflict
• Easy card game
• ___ correspondent
• More than a brawl
• Declaration of Congress
• Kind of cabinet
• ___ powers
• Congressional declaration
• With 59-Across, battle planning site
• Realm of Ares
• 1970 #1 hit with the lyric "huh, yeah, What is it good for?"
• Subject in Article I Section 8 of the Constitution
• Realm of 3-Down
• "The child of Pride," according to Jonathan Swift
• "That mad game the world so loves to play," to Jonathan Swift
• Sun Tzu's "The Art of ___"
• Drug ___
• ___ Emblem (2002 Kentucky Derby winner)
• Cabinet department until 1947
• Campaign setting
• See 3-Down
• "The ___ of the Worlds" (H. G. Wells novel)
• Battle, and then some
• Wouk's "The Winds of ___"
• Mindless card game
• Interminable card game
• Major fight
• Ares' area
• Repetitive card game
• Big battle
• Armed conflict
• Severe skirmish
• Dove's dislike
• International trouble
• Civil ___
• "The ___ of the Worlds"
• Part of the name of four Preakness winners
• What the United Nations hopes to prevent
• Kind of baby or bonnet
• Cry or paint preceder
• Kid's card game
• Serious conflict
• Numbers game?
• One of the Four Horsemen
• "What is it good for, absolutely nothing!"
• Word before chest or cry
• One of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
• Tolstoy title word
• Type of paint or party
• ___ Admiral (1937 Triple Crown winner)
• What protesters may protest
• Hell, to Sherman
• "This means ___!"
• Big conflict
• Hawk's cause
• ___ of 1812
• Declaration of 1941
• It was hell, to Sherman
• Card game for 11-Down
• Original Cabinet department renamed Defense in 1949
• Go fish alternative
• Word with party or game
• What a dove despises
• Part of WWII
• It's good for "absolutely nothing," according to a 1970 #1 hit
• It can cause a draft
• Part of POW
• Word with baby or story
• Old maid alternative
• Hawk's desire
• Word with cry or baby
• "The trade of kings": Dryden
• Hell, to General Sherman
• Cold ___
• Gulf ___
• Serious hostilities
• Hawk's concern
• "Much too serious a thing to be left to the military": Clemenceau
• 1970 Edwin Starr protest song
• Sherman's hell
• Hawks support it
• Tedious card game
• "There never was a good" one, according to Franklin
• Card game
• Word before baby or bonnet
• Machiavelli subject
• Major event of 1812
• Ten years' or hundred years' event
• Dire declaration
• Mars' thing
• All's fair in it
• One was civil in America
• All-out hostility
• Protest topic, often
• Battle of nations
• In song, it's good for absolutely nothing
• Type of correspondent
• Major undertaking?
• General concern?
• General assembly?
• Entente interrupter
• Tolstoy title start
• Classic one-word headline
• Vietnam ___
• All's fair in it?
• Mars' domain
• It's good for "absolutely nothing" according to a 1970 hit
• *Edwin Starr, 1970
• ___ of the Roses
• Raw reversal?
• Collect-all-the-cards game
• "The Naked and the Dead" subject
• It's more than a mere battle
• Domain of 78 Down
• It's hell, axiomatically
• All-out conflict
• Something played out in a theater
• See 48-Across
• "Saving Private Ryan" backdrop
• General activity
• Basic card game
• Edwin Starr hit
• What's broken out of the answers to the starred clues?
• Battle field
• See 9-Across
• Series of battles
• Protest subject
• Hawk's advocacy
• Type of cry or paint
• Cold ___
• WWII's W#2
• Hawk's hope
• "This means ---!"
• Kind of paint or powers
• No-brainer card game
• Reason for face painting
• General concern
• It's hell, they say
• "The Hurt Locker" subject
• Hell, as they say
• One of the W's in W.W. I
• Kind of cry or paint
• "The ___ of the Roses"
• Strategy-free card game
• Sherman called it "hell"
• Clash of arms
• Armed combat
• Card game with a belligerent name
• 1970 hit that asks about its title, "What is it good for?"
• '___ and Peace'
• Sherman called it 'hell'
• Sherman called it hell
• Series of skirmishes
• Revolutionary, for one
• Fighting
• Kids card game
• General practice
• Child's card game
• 1940s headline word
• 'This means ___!'
• Peacenik's worry
• Ares' realm
• Peace opposite
• Gen. Sherman called it hell
• Kids card game'
• Hostilities
• 'Dr. Strange-love subject'
• Do battle
• Giant fight
• 1812 event
• Giant conflict
• Huge conflict
• Big fight
• Big skirmish
• Huge fight
• Major battle
• Member of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
• "All's fair" in it
• Doves' aversion
• It may precede a treaty
• Peace antithesis
• "___ of the Roses"
• Serious struggle
• All-out fight
• Military sicence
• Major conflict
• Word with game or room
• Battle
• Symbolic dove's aversion
• It may be civil, yet raging
• Word before cloud or cry
• It may be civil yet raging
• Common video game milieu
• Cabinet department phased out in 1947
• Serious fight
• Word with "dance" or "party"
• Combative card game
• Peace's opposite
• Horrific conflict
• See 111-Down
• "All's fair" in it, it's said
• "The Chocolate ___": classic young-adult novel
• Stratego situation
• The second "W" of W.W. II
• Big international conflict
• Military science
• "A defeat for humanity," per Pope John Paul II
• Huge battle
• Card game for two, usually
• ___ games
• "___ and Peace"
• "Low Rider" band
• The Crimean ___
• It may have a general assembly?
• Mars' realm
• Kind of dance or paint
• Edwin Starr protest song
• Disturber of the peace
• Series ofskirmishes
• Game of pure chance
• Where there's a general assembly?
• It's conducted in a theater
• 1914 headlines
• Start of a Tolstoy title
• Opposite of 31-Across
• Armed hostility
• Strife
• ____won ton
• Price ___
• 1914 outbreak
• Like some deals
• Man-o'-___ (old battleship)
• Word with cry or crime
• See 74 Down
• 'This means !'
• Hawk's love
• Diplomacy alternative
• Belligerent state
• General Assembly topic?
• It's full of battles
• "Family Law"s theme song
• What polemology is the study of
• Tolstoy topic
• Trojan, for one
• "A symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal": Steinbeck
• "The Iliad" subject
• It may be declared
• Card game that can go on and on
• "... let slip the dogs of ___": Shak.
• General purpose?
• Word before god or games
• Subject of 12/8/1941 headlines
• Civil, for one
• Card game using the entire deck
• 1960s-'70s protest topic
• Trojan ___
• Sun Tzu subject
• Domain of Mars and Ares
• Military engagement
• String of engagements
• High-card-wins game
• Word in 12/8/41 headlines
• Part of WWI
• It's of general concern
• Word before horse or hero
• Massive fight
• Called for
• Battle milieu
• "The ___ Cry" (Salvation Army publication)
• Jihad
• Tolstoy subject
• General battle?
• Topic for Sun Tzu
• Battle's big brother
• Armed fight
• World ___ II
• Clash
• "Love and ___"
• Kid's game card
• Desert Storm, e.g.
• Opposite of peace
• What's in the middle of upwards?
• Sphere of Mars
• The Civil ___
• Classic Springsteen tune
• Two-player card game
• Kids' card game for two
• Conflict between countries
• It's good for absolutely nothing, in a song
• It's in the middle of upwards?
• Child's card game for two
• It's good for nothing, in song
• Major conflict between nations
• Korean or Civil, e.g.
• It's good for absolutely nothing [hunh]
• Classic U2 album
• Armed conflict between countries
• Civil or Trojan
• Hell, it's said
• Hundred Years' ___ (which lasted less than 100 years)
• Failure of diplomacy
• Thumb battle
• Good for absolutely nothing
• Headline of 1914
• Military conflict
• Domain of Ares
• "The Cisco Kid" band
• "Spill the Wine" band
• Eric Burdon band
• "Why Can't We Be Friends?" band
• The big fight
• Fighting to give cowards heart
• Open hostility
• It has its heroes - and some cowards
• Half warmed cold one?
• State of conflict
• Greenback from Mars?
• Edward's big struggle
• Conflict warily started
• English novelist, it's said - and the sort of press correspondent he once was?
• In which there'll always be some cowards?
• Hell, per Sherman
• It might cause a draft
• City division
• Greenback that's part of the bulge on 26 down
• Amorous maiden denied being offensive
• Game in which twos lose
• Cowards at heart showing great fight
• Cause of a draft, perhaps
• "Fear cloaked in courage," per William Westmoreland
• It's 14 Down with bloodshed, per Mao Zedong
• Megadeath madness
• It kicks the L out of "glory"
• Sun Tzu’s area of expertise
• Campaigner's contest (or the start of a 1930s movie actor's split personality)
• Card game requiring no skill
• Cabinet department that split in 1947
• Highest-card-wins game
• "___ is hell"
• Strength contest, tug o' ___
• Struggle, untrained, to reverse
• Open eyes about both sides - one is hostile
• Overcooked? Not at all
• "___ and Peace" (Tolstoy novel)
• Word with "cry"
• In it, there are always some cowards
• "World ___ Z" (Brad Pitt movie)
• Cold, maybe, but it starts warm
• Battle between nations
• "God created ___ so that Americans would learn geography" (line attributed to Mark Twain)
• "___ has no use for free speech": Julius Caesar
• General battle?
• "Dunkirk" movie genre
• Group of raiders*
• U-turn from peace
• In attrition, perhaps, endlessly wary
• Hecatomb causer
• Ultimate confrontation
• Wherein half the army is at the Western Front
• Hawk's cry
• Subject for "Dunkirk" or "Apocalypse Now"
• Edwin Starr classic
• A degree of cowardice in fighting
• It once caused a draft
• Prolonged conflict
• Doves despise it
• Game in which no decisions are made
• World conflict
• Large conflict
• Newspaper headline of 12/8/1941
• "The Hurt Locker" backdrop
• "___Games": 1983 Matthew Broderick film
• Game with many ties
• Fighting between nations
• Fighting between countries
• ___ of attrition
• Major operation?
• Word before bride or paint
• Ares' domain
• A treaty may end one
• General concern?
• Conflict; hostilities
• "What happens when language fails," per Margaret Atwood
• 49 Across setting
• Edwin Starr asked, "What is it good for?"
• Child's first card game, maybe
• Mindless card game for two
• "___ of the Worlds"
• Serious declaration
• Series of campaigns
• Field for Mars
• "The most successful ___ seldom pays for its losses": Thomas Jefferson
• Word after "Civil" or "Infinity" in the MCU
• ___ movie
• Cold, maybe; but there's some warmth
• Subject of "1917"
• "1917" subject
• Domain of 69-Across
• Edwin Starr hit originally recorded by the Temptations
• "The Art of ___"
• Large-scale conflict
• "Iliad" activity
• Game that's 100% luck
• General practice?
• What truth is said to be the first casualty of
• It's bigger than a battle
• "I have seen ___. I have seen ___ on land and sea. ... I hate ___.": F.D.R.
• Card game of chance
• Tug of ___
• 1970 #1 hit with the line "What is it good for?"
• "___ is mainly a catalog of blunders": Churchill
• Game of luck
• All's fair in love and this
• ___ games (military practice)
• Target of some Bob Dylan songs
• Active hostility
• Card-vs.-card game
• Peace's counterpart
• Card-beats-card game
• Journalist Hemingway's assignment
• Half warmed cold one?
• All-luck card game
• Word with bonds or games
• Churchill ___ Rooms (London tourist attraction)
• Mindless two-player card game
• *Word in a classic Tolstoy title
• Domain of Mars
• It may be revolutionary
• Game with the objective of winning all the cards
• Luck-based card game
• "If we don't end ___, ___ will end us": H. G. Wells
• "Captain America: Civil ___"
• What games like chess, Stratego and Risk simulate
• Word with horse or hero
• "All the Light We Cannot See" backdrop
• - of 1812
• "___ Games," 1983 film
• Realm of Ares and Mars
• Less than warm, possibly cold
• Horrific event filled with battles
• Inward strife?
• In which there'll always be some cowards?
• "A symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal," according to John Steinbeck
• It has a peaceful end
• It's good for "absolutely nothing," per a 1970 #1 hit
• "Foyle's ___" (British TV drama)
• Epic backdrop, maybe
• "The Winds of ___"
• Two-person card game
• "1, 2, 3, 4, I declare a thumb ___!"
• Card game for two players
• Armed conflict between nations
• Backdrop of many novels set in the 1940s
• Simple two-player card game
• "Hart's ___"
• Tolstoy's "___ and Peace"
• "You can no more win a ___ than you can win an earthquake": Jeannette Rankin
• Card game that requires no skill
• Biblical rider of a red horse
• Word that can precede cry or baby
• "Catch-22" topic
• "A form of madness," it's said