| ANASTASIA | Daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, believed to have been executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918 (9) |
| ATAHUALPA | The last emperor of the Incas, who was executed by the Spanish in 1533 |
| DUMA | Elective legislative assembly of Russia established by tsar Nicholas II in 1905 and overthrown by the Bolsheviks in 1917 (4) |
| GARROTTED | Get dart or be executed by another means (9) |
| DEPREDATE | Record Bolshevik in time of pillage (9) |
| TERROR | Red ____, repressive campaign by the Bolsheviks in Soviet Russia 1918-1922 (6) |
| OFTHE | In 1461, Thomas Roos, Lord of the Manor of Holt, was executed by the Yorkists for supporting the Lancastrians in the War ... Roses (2, 3) |
| BRESTLITOVSK | Name given to the treaty signed by the Bolsheviks and the Central Powers to end Russia's participation in the first world war (5-7) |
| TATIANA | Daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, murdered in 1918 aged 21 (7) |
| TSAR | Leader executed by the Bolsheviks |
| SHOTINTHEDARK | As a wild guess, may have been executed during the night (4,2,3,4) |
| CAVELL | Surname of Edith, the British nurse executed by the Germans in World War I (6) |
| OLGA | Daughter of Tsar Nicholas II |
| EDITHCAVELL | English nurse executed by the Germans in World War I for helping Allied prisoners to escape |
| EDITH | ___ Cavell, British nurse executed by the Germans in Belgium in 1915 (5) |
| ATSTAKE | About to be executed by fire in question (2,5) |
| CHEKA | Russian secret police set up in 1917 by the Bolsheviks (5) |
| HUNGER | Longing to be executed by queen |
| HARI | Mata ... , executed by the French out of charity? |
| IMRENAGY | Hungarian Prime Minister who was secretly tried and executed by the Soviets |
