| CHRISTOPHERMARLOWE | English dramatist and poet supposedly stabbed to death in a tavern brawl in 1593 (11,7) |
| MARLOWE | Christopher ___, English dramatist stabbed to death in a tavern brawl in 1593; Doctor Faustus (c. 1590), The Jew of Malta (c. 1592) etc. (7) |
| DEPTFORD | Playwright Christopher Marlowe died in a tavern brawl in this London suburb (8) |
| MARAT | Jean-Paul ___, politician stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday in 1793 (5) |
| BENJONSON | English dramatist and poet whose work includes Volpone and Every Man In His Humour (3,6) |
| DAVENANT | William ___, English dramatist and poet who succeeded Ben Jonson as Poet Laureate in 1638 (8) |
| PALEASA | Ghost: scared to death, in a way (4,2,1) |
| BANSHEE | A female spirit in Irish and Scottish Highland folklore who wails before a death in a household (7) |
| ETTUBRUTE | Julius Caesar's last words when being stabbed to death, according to Shakespeare (2,2,5) |
| MILE | 280 feet were added to it in 1593 |
| HERBERT | George, British metaphysical poet born in 1593 (7) |
| HELLSANGEL | One stabbed a man to death in the Stones' Gimme Shelter. |
| PENS | From the Latin for "feathers", word for quills or writing instruments, such as the styli with which schoolmaster Cassian of Imola was stabbed to death by his own students (4) |
| OSBORNE | John ---, English dramatist and screenwriter whose works included the 1956 play Look Back In Anger (7) |
| SHELAGHDELANEY | English dramatist and screenwriter best known for her debut work, A Taste of Honey |
| NOEL | English dramatist and composer who played crime boss Mr. Bridger in the 1969 film The Italian Job (4) |
| COWARD | English dramatist and composer who played crime boss Mr. Bridger in the 1969 film The Italian Job (6) |
| SHORTCHANGE | Unfairly treat anti-war backbencher, to be put to death in church (5-6) |
| ATAHUALPA | Thirteenth and last Inca emperor who was put to death in 1533 (9) |
| TATE | Nahum _ (1652-1715), Irish dramatist and poet appointed Poet Laureate in 1692 (4) |
