| DAVIDKOSSOFF | British actor who became an anti-drug campaigner after the death of his son Paul, guitarist in the band Free |
| RONHOWARD | Happy Days actor who became an Oscar-winning director |
| LES | ___ Paul, guitarist (3) |
| BANE | Curse what an anti-drug law may do |
| SAYNO | Heed an anti-drug campaign |
| THRENODY | Poem or song of mourning or lamentation such as that written by Ralph Waldo Emerson on the death of his son in 1842 |
| BOBHOPE | Emmerdale bloke devastated at the death of his son Heath (3,4) |
| ORLEANS | Duc d' -; title upon the death of his uncle Gaston of Philippe I who was the younger brother of the Sun King and bought Chateau de Saint- Cloud for 240,000 livres in 1658(7) |
| ASSYRIA | Emerging as an independent state in the 14th century BCE, it became a major power in Mesopotamia, Armenia, and sometimes in northern Syria, before declining after the death of Tukulti-Ninurta I about |
| TOMKING | Dales chap still struggling with grief after the death of his father Carl (3,4) |
| RAMIMALEK | Actor who became the first one of Egyptian heritage to win an Oscar for Best Actor in 2019: 2 wds. |
| ABDULLAH | He ascended to the throne on the death of his father, King Hussein; King ... II of Jordan |
| EDWARDVI | King at the age of nine upon the death of his father, Henry VIII (6,1,1) |
| HENRYVI | English ruler who lived 1421-71, becoming king on the death of his father in 1422 (5,2) |
| NERO | Final emperor of the Julio-Ctaudian dynasty, who ananged the deaths of his mother, wife and step-brother (4) |
| PRINCES | - in the Tower; Edward V and his brother Richard who disappeared aged 12 and 9 respectively after the death of their father Edward IV in 1483 (7) |
| NINTH | Curse of the -; superstition in the classical music world invented by Arnold Schoenberg after the death of composer Gustav Mahler (5) |
| ALEXANDRA | Danish wife of Edward VII who became queen consort in 1901 after the death of Queen Victoria (9) |
| SAM | _ Blakeman, has stopped talking after the death of his mother (3) |
| OMARSHARIF | Egyptian actor who became a star after appearing in Lawrence of Arabia in 1962 (4,6) |
