| LEMMINGS | Animals wrongly believed to commit suicide by jumping off cliffs |
| LEMMING | Which type of animal was once believed to commit mass suicide? (7) |
| SENECA | Philosopher ordered by Nero to commit suicide |
| ASP | The small viper apparently used by Cleopatra to commit suicide after Antony's defeat at the Battle o |
| MARTIN | _ Fowler, he was wrongly believed to be celebrating a big birthday in EastEnders (6) |
| PENNY | _ Branning, was wrongly believed to have caused the crush at Peggy's in Walford (5) |
| NAUTILUS | From the Greek for "sailor", a marine mollusc whose name originally referred to the floating argonaut octopus, wrongly believed by Aristotle to use its tentacles as sails (8) |
| MISTHOUGHT | Wrongly believed hotel is obliged to put on film |
| HARAKIRI | Suicide by disembowelment practised by Samurai (4-4) |
| HANGGLIDING | Sport in which you launch yourself off cliffs and plateaux (4-7) |
| TOBEORNOTTOBE | Shall I commit suicide? (2,2,2,3,2,2) |
| PLAY | Commit suicide - be Plautus' Asinus, unlike Macbeth(4,3,5,4) |
| TOP | Commit suicide at the summit? (3) |
| HARIKIRI | (Japan) Ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword. |
| SEPPUKU | Another word for harakiri, the Japanese practice of suicide by disembowelment (7) |
| THOU | Film where three chained convicts try - and fail - to escape by jumping onto a moving train and then escape via a handcart operated by a blind man (1, 7, 5, 3, 4) |
| WHEREART | Film where three chained convicts try - and fail - to escape by jumping onto a moving train and then escape via a handcart operated by a blind man (1, 7, 5, 3, 4) |
| OBROTHER | Film where three chained convicts try - and fail - to escape by jumping onto a moving train and then escape via a handcart operated by a blind man (1,7,5, 3,4) |
| PEG | Actress Entwistle who committed suicide in 1932 by jumping from Hollywood's "H" |
| CUTINFRONTOF | Annoy by jumping the queue, and a hint to the circled words |