| BILLYTHEKID | Outlaw hit and killed by fragments |
| SEDIMENTARY | Rock formed by fragment deposit(11) |
| ADAMSON | Wildlife conservationist and author of Born Free who was shot and killed by poachers in 1980, Joy .. |
| ACTAEON | Mythological Greek hunter transformed into a stag by Artemis and killed by his own hounds (7) |
| GREEDO | Star Wars bounty hunter played by Paul Blake and killed by Han Solo (6) |
| ADONIS | Handsome youth in Greek mythology loved by Aphrodite and killed by a wild boar |
| ABSALOM | In the Old Testament, who was caught by his hair in an oak tree and killed by his cousin? (7) |
| TROILUS | Son of King Priam ambushed and killed by Achilles |
| EDITH | Miss Cavell, British nurse court-martialled and killed by the Germans in WWI (5) |
| CLARE | Hollyoaks villainess who was recently run over and killed by Dr Browning (5,6) |
| NELSON | British naval commander, shot and killed by a French sniper during a famous sea battle of 1805 (6) |
| MONTEZUMA | Aztec emperor of Mexico, overthrown and killed by the Spanish conquistador Cortes (9) |
| NATHANHALE | Revolutionary War spy who was captured and killed by the British at the age of twenty-one |
| PREY | An animal that is caught and killed by another for food (4) |
| LYNCHED | In the second half of July, retrenched and killed by mob (7) |
| NESSUS | Centaur killed by Hercules with a poisoned arrow whose blood, in turn, poisoned and killed Hercules |
| SLEIGHED | Was dragged along by dogs and killed for crying out |
| BUMPEDOFF | Knocked from by a jolt and killed (6,3) |
| GARRETT | Pat ___, US lawman who shot and killed the outlaw Billy the Kid in 1881 (7) |
| NIKKI | SHE GOT PREGNANT BY JACK IN 1992, MARRIED VICTOR IN 2002,AND KILLED DIANE IN 2012 (Y&R) |
