| CROCKETT | Davy -, frontiersman who died at the Alamo |
| DAVYCT | FRONTIERSMAN WHO DIED AT THE ALAMO |
| BOWIE | James - - -, frontiersman who died at the Battle of the Alamo, after whom a type of hunting knife is named (5) |
| MAMACASS | US singer who died at the age of 32 in July 1974 where four years later Keith Moon of The Who also died (4,4) |
| DAVY | --- Crockett, American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician who died at the Battle of the Alamo in 1836 (4) |
| JIMBOWIE | American pioneer, who died at the Battle of the Alamo, after whom a knife is named (3,5) |
| BOWIEKNIFE | Fighting weapon named after a U.S. pioneer and soldier who died at the Battle of the Alamo (5,5) |
| DAVISON | Surname of the suffragette who died at the 1913 Derby (7) |
| FERLINGHETTI | Poet associated with the Beat generation who died at the age of 101 earlier this year |
| NOAH | Third-oldest person in the Bible, who died at the age of 950 (Genesis 9:29) (4) |
| YODA | Character who died at the age of 900 in Return of the Jedi |
| PETRONILLA | Virgin martyr who died at the end of the first century, supposedly a daughter of Peter (10) |
| CARLETON | 60 Minutes reporter who died at the Beaconsfield mine, Richard ... (8) |
| ARRIAGA | Spanish composer born in 1806, a child prodigy who died at the age of 20 |
| HARDRADA | Harald - - -, King of Norway who died at the Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066 (8) |
| HAROLD | _ _ _ _ _ _ Godwinson, last Anglo-Saxon king of England who died at the Battle of Hastings (6) |
| RAPHAEL | 16th Century Italian painter and architect who died at the age of 37 (7) |
| MARENGO | Napoleon Bonaparte's famous Arabian grey warhorse, who died at the age of 38 (7) |
| SERGEIGRINKOV | Russian skater who died at the age of 28, just a year after winning his second Olympic Pairs title with partner and wife Ekaterina Gordeeva |
| BOONE | Frontiersman who crossed the Appalachians |
