| MARAT | Jean Paul -; revolutionary whose assassination in his bath by Charlotte Corday is depicted in a painting by Jacques-Louis David (5) |
| TWINGE | I went off key in - a pain (6) |
| OSBERT | A forename of the author of A Place of One's Own who is depicted in a painting by John Singer Sargent with his parents and his siblings Edith and Sacheverell Sitwell (6) |
| HANNIBAL | Carthaginian general whose crossing of the Alps by elephant is depicted in a painting by Turner (8) |
| GUEVARA | Che ___, revolutionary whose remains are in a mausoleum in Santa Clara in Cuba |
| SOCRATES | Greek philosopher known through the writings of Plato and Xenophon whose death by hemlock poisoning is depicted in a painting by Jacques-Louis David (8) |
| SITWELL | Author who is depicted in a painting by John Singer Sargent with his siblings Edith and Sacheverell (7) |
| CHATTERTON | Poet whose death is depicted in a painting by Henry Wallis (10) |
| JEANPAULMARAT | French Revolutionary political theorist who was assassinated by Charlotte Corday (4-4,5) |
| CAMDEN | Antiquary and former headmaster of Westminster School who is depicted in a bust in Westminster Abbey with one hand on his great survey Britannia (6) |
| TREE | Actor-manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm whose adventurer, poet, socialite daughter Iris is depicted in a portrait by painter Augustus John (4) |
| FERDINAND | Archduke of Austria, whose assassination in 1914 led to the start of the First World War (5,9) |
| FRANZ | Archduke of Austria, whose assassination in 1914 led to the start of the First World War (5,9) |
| KIROV | Sergei, Soviet politician whose assassination in 1934 led to Stalin's purge of the Communist Party (5) |
| WILLIAMMCKINLEY | US President whose assassination in Buffalo, NY brought Teddy Roosevelt into office |
| CAESAR | A man named Casca is said to have struck the first blow in whose assassination? (6,6) |
| JULIUS | A man named Casca is said to have struck the first blow in whose assassination? (6,6) |
| EUREKA | Famous exclamation uttered by Archimedes whilst in his bath. (6) |
| ARCHIMEDES | Greek mathematician and inventor (he was supposed to have cried Eureka! in his bath, having worked o |
| JENNPAULMARAT | Swiss-born radical journalist and politician during the French Revolution, killed in his bath tub (4-4,5) |
