| RFK | Deliverer of a noted speech upon the death of Martin Luther King Jr. (4/4/1968), in brief |
| LIBRETTI | Noted speech for Grand Opera perhaps (8) |
| BLACKMAGICWOMAN | Song 4. 1968 off English Rose |
| 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) |
| MEMPHIS | A port in Tennessee on the Mississippi River; the site of Martin Luther King Jr's assassination (7) |
| EDWARDVI | King at the age of nine upon the death of his father, Henry VIII (6,1,1) |
| AMERICANENGLISH | Reinterpretation of Anglicanism here in the words of Martin Luther King, say? (8,7) |
| TYLER | He was the first vice president to become president upon the death of the chief executive (#10, 1841 |
| EARL | James ___ Ray (suspected assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., captured in 1968) |
| FREEATLAST | Final words of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech |
| REGICIDE | The murder of Martin Luther King perhaps by soldier and police in Lough (8) |
| JESSEJACKSON | Late American politician and clergyman, campaigner for minority rights who was a protege of Martin Luther King Jr (5,7) |
| CALVINCOOLIDGE | US vice president who became president upon the death of Warren Harding in 1923: 2 wds. |
| LYNDONBJOHNSON | US vice president who became president upon the death of John F. Kennedy in 1963: 3 wds. |
| HEYJUDE | Beatles song which was the topselling single of 1968 in the UK, US, Australia and Canada (3,4) |
| JAMES | Convicted assassin of Martin Luther King Jr, _ _ Ray (5,4) |
| ATLANTA | Birthplace of Martin Luther King, Jr |
| HOSEA | Civil rights leader Williams, who was an associate of Martin Luther King Jr. |
| ARC | Shape of Martin Luther King Jr.'s moral universe |
| DAY | Follower of Martin Luther King Jr. |
