| ENRICOCARUSO | Singer who survived the 1906 San Francisco quake |
| OSIX | Nineteen _ ___ (San Francisco quake year, quaintly) |
| FRANCISCO | Californian city destroyed by an earthquake in 1906, San ... |
| ELIEWIESEL | Nobel Peace Prize winner who survived the Holocaust |
| IKE | Clanton who survived the O.K. Corral |
| RUTHROMAN | "Strangers on a Train" actress who survived the Andrea Doria sinking |
| NOAH | Hebrew patriarch who survived the Flood (4) |
| AENEAS | Trojan who survived the fall of Troy |
| DRRUTH | Sex therapist who survived the Holocaust |
| SHEM | Female and male who survived the Flood (4) |
| GREGG | Harry _, Northern Irish Manchester United goal keeper who survived the Munich air disaster in 1958 (5) |
| THEPIANIST | 2002 film about a musician who survived the Holocaust |
| ROOSEVELT | Which US president organised the building of the Panama Canal in 1903 and was awarded the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize? (9) |
| NESBIT | Edith, author of the 1906 children's book The Railway Children (6) |
| NOYES | Alfred, writer of the 1906 narrative poem The Highwayman (5) |
| VITALSPARK | The -, 1906 story collection by Neil Munro featuring the mariner Para Handy |
| TWAIN | Author of the 1906 short-story collection The $30,000 Bequest (5) |
| VITAL | The -, 1906 story collection by Neil Munro featuring the mariner Para Handy (5,5) |
| SPARK | The -, 1906 story collection by Neil Munro featuring the mariner Para Handy (5,5) |
| RRS | The 1906 Hepburn Act gave the ICC power to set rates for them |
