| BERKELEY | Gloucestershire castle, scene of the murder of Edward II in 1327 (8) |
| ISABELLA | "She-wolf of France" who played a principal role in the deposition of her husband Edward II in 1327 (8) |
| ORIEL | Constituent college of the University of Oxford originally founded under the patronage of Edward II in 1326 (5) |
| POMPEII | Great ceremony for Edward II in old city? (7) |
| ECKHART | Johannes, German Dominican mystic who died in 1327 (7) |
| DAUGHTER | The ___, crime thriller in which Richard III is exonerated of the murders of his nephews (8,2,4) |
| GAVESTON | Piers _, Favourite of Edward II, executed in 1312 (8) |
| REVOLVER | One of the murder weapons in Cluedo (8) |
| MORTIMER | Roger _, 1st Earl of March who deposed Edward II (8) |
| SECONDED | Edward II appears to have given support (8) |
| OJSIMPSON | Former American footballer acquitted of the murder of his wife in 1995 (1,1,7) |
| LAURA | Subject of the unrequited love of the Italian poet Petrarch, for whom he wrote the love sonnets of the Canzoniere (1327-68) (5) |
| SECONDER | Person supporting Edward II |
| TURNEDTO | Go with Edward, two reportedly set to work (6,2) |
| AMANDA | Woman acquitted of the murder of Meredith Kercher (6,4) |
| NUIT | Jack _, nightclub owner convicted of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald (4) |
| RUBY | Jack ___, convicted of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald (4) |
| OPIE | John, Cornish painter of The Murder of Rizzio (4) |
| ISASLEEP | In 1.8, Lady Macbeth gives instruction to Macbeth to kill the King. He expresses some worry, and she crushes it by specifying the time of the murder: "And we'll not fail. When Duncan ___ ___." |
| ALIBI | "I was out of town at the time of the murder," e.g. |
