| GESUALDO | Renaissance madrigal master who murdered his wife and her lover |
| EDWARDII | Born in Caernarfon Castle, king overthrown in favour of his 14-yearold son by his wife and her lover Roger Mortimer and later murdered (6,1,1) |
| PETERGREENAWAY | Writer and director of The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover |
| MIRREN | Helen who played the wife in "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover" |
| NYMAN | British composer who wrote the soundtrack to Peter Greenaway's films including The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover and Prospero's Books (5) |
| GREENAWAY | Director whose films include The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Prospero's Books and Nightwa |
| ROTH | Actor in The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Vincent & Theo, Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction (4) |
| COOK | The -, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover ; Peter Greenaway film (4) |
| OEDYPUS | Mythical king of Thebes who murdered his father and married his mother (7) |
| CAIN | Who was the first son of Adam and Eve, who murdered his brother Abel (4) |
| COLWELL | The Albert Square accountant who murdered his comatose wife (5,7) |
| REISS | The Albert Square accountant who murdered his comatose wife (5,7) |
| HIS | Michael Gambon film, The Cook, The Thief, ... Wife And Her Lover |
| TODD | Sweeney --, fictional barber who murdered his customers (4) |
| NERO | Roman emperor who murdered his mother |
| ORESTES | In Greek mythology, the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, who killed his mother and her lover Aegisthus in revenge for their murder of his father |
| VANESSA | A creatively gifted Bloomsbury Group belle, somewhat private and shy, who co-founded the Omega Workshops with Duncan Grant and her lover Roger Fry, and aptly shared her Swiftian forename in question w |
| AGAMEMNON | King of Mycenae murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus (9) |
| ELECTRA | Daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra who persuaded her brother Orestes to murder their mother and her lover Aegisthus (7) |
| IVAN | Russian ruler who historians believe murdered his own son |
