| SLAIN | Killed in Los Angeles during wickedness |
| EAGLES | American rock band that was formed in Los Angeles during the early 1970s (6) |
| ENCLAVE | Enclosed region in North Carolina linked to Los Angeles during the day before (7) |
| YURIGAGARIN | Russian cosmonaut killed in a plane accident in training in 1968 |
| HOLLY | US songwriter killed in plane crash in 1959 (5,5) |
| BUDDY | US songwriter killed in plane crash in 1959 (5,5) |
| FALLEN | Killed in fine bog in Ireland |
| MAGELLAN | Ferdinand, Portuguese explorer killed in the Philippines in 1521 (8) |
| ICILY | Island in Med has head killed in a hostile manner |
| SLOVAKIA | Wild salvo: killed in action in state |
| OTISREDDING | US soul singer killed in an air crash in 1967 (4,7) |
| MARAT | Jean-Paul ---, Swiss-born radical journalist and politician in the French Revolution, killed in his bath tub (5) |
| GORDON | British general killed in the siege of Khartoum in 1885 (6) |
| EARLMOUNTBATTEN | Cousin to Queen Elizabeth II killed in a bomb blast on his boat in 1979 |
| CIRCUSELEPHANT | Celebrated pachyderm Jumbo, for one (He tragically was killed in 1885 when struck by a train in St. Thomas, Ontario): 2 wds. |
| STANROGERS | Acclaimed Canadian folk singer/songwriter tragically killed in a plane disaster in 1983: 2 wds. |
| STRETCH | Stage name of American rapper Randy Walker, killed in a drive-by shooting in 1995 (7) |
| JENNPAULMARAT | Swiss-born radical journalist and politician during the French Revolution, killed in his bath tub (4-4,5) |
| RORYPECK | Journalist killed in Russia in 1993, whose eponymous Trust supports freelance journalists (4,4) |
| IMOLA | Italian race track where Brazilian driver Ayrton Senna was killed in a crash in 1994 (5) |
