| ORSINI | Felice --, Italian revolutionary who tried to assassinate Napoleon III (6) |
| TUNNELLER | Run with Ellen, oddball revolutionary who tried to escape from 4? (9) |
| ORSINIPLOT | 1858 conspiracy to assassinate Napoleon III (6,4) |
| PIERRE | "War and Peace" character who determines through numerology that he is destined to assassinate Napoleon |
| PESARO | Abramo ****** , Italian revolutionary born in 1818 (6) |
| NEPHEW | Napoleon III, to Napoleon |
| BRUTUS | Marcus Junius ---, Roman statesman who led the conspiracy to assassinate Caesar (6) |
| DUETTO | Verdi's "Un di felice, eterea," per esempio |
| FROMME | Manson "family" member who attempted to assassinate Gerald Ford |
| NIMROD | Sent aloft to assassinate but stopped by Mr Hunter (6) |
| KAPLAN | Fanny __, woman executed in 1918 after a failed attempt to assassinate Lenin (6) |
| DOMAIN | Field of expertise - to assassinate old lady! (6) |
| ROMANI | "Norma" librettist Felice ___ |
| DANTON | Revolutionary who lost his head (6) |
| CASTRO | Revolutionary who deposed Cuba's president in 1959 (6) |
| CORDAY | Charlotte ___, French Girondist revolutionary who assassinated Jean Paul Marat in 1793 (6) |
| JAMESI | King whom Robert Catesby, Guy Fawkes and others attempted to assassinate in the Gunpowder Plot (5,1) |
| SECONDEMPIRE | Assistant MP in Eire, but ruled by Napoleon III (6,6) |
| BONAPARTE | Family name of former emperors of France Napoleon I, Napoleon II and Napoleon III (9) |
| VICTORHUGO | French novelist who lived on Guernsey after being forced into exile by Napoleon III (6,4) |
