| NATHANHALE | Revolutionary War spy who was captured and killed by the British at the age of twenty-one |
| MAYALIN | Artist who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, at the age of twenty-one |
| BLAST | British at the end producing mild oath |
| HORATIOGATES | English-born U.S. general who in 1777 compelled the surrender of the British at Saratoga (7,5) |
| EICHMANN | Karl Adolf ___, Austrian Nazi official who escaped to Argentina after World War II but was captured and executed in 1962 |
| FOE | The Germans, to the British at Jutland |
| PONTIAC | Famous Ottawa Indian chief who attacked the British at Fort Detroit |
| HOSTAGE | He was captured and shot escaping a time after |
| BUSSELL | Appointed principal at the Royal Ballet at the age of 20 and OBE in 1995, ballerina with a David Austin rose named after her who was a judge on Strictly Come Dancing (7) |
| PURCELL | Baroque musician dubbed "Orpheus Britannicus" who became the organist for Westminster Abbey around the age of 20 and composed the first English opera, Dido and Aeneas (7) |
| EDITH | Miss Cavell, British nurse court-martialled and killed by the Germans in WWI (5) |
| MONTEZUMA | Aztec emperor of Mexico, overthrown and killed by the Spanish conquistador Cortes (9) |
| ROSSMCWHIRTER | Who, with his twin Norris, sold facts to newspapers which led to the founding of The Guinness Books of Records and, in 1975, after offering a reward for information on terrorists, was killed by the Pr |
| FALDO | Former World No. 1 golfer who, at the age of 20, became the youngest player ever to qualify for the Ryder Cup (5) |
| MIKETYSON | American former boxer who became the youngest heavyweight champion in history in 1986 at the age of 20 years and 4 months: 2 wds. |
| POCAHONTAS | Member of the Powhatan people who was captured by English settlers at Jamestown, Virginia in 1613 (10) |
| TYSON | Mike, US boxer who became the youngest ever heavyweight boxing champion in 1986 at the age of 20 (5) |
| MINOTAUR | Creature who lived at the centre of the Cretan Labyrinth until killed by the Athenian hero Theseus |
| TIPTOE | Digit at the end or start of twenty one point one, oddly (6) |
| ARRIAGA | Spanish composer born in 1806, a child prodigy who died at the age of 20 |
