| EASTENDERS | Soap opera whose first episode in 1985 centred on the death of Reg Cox |
| DALLAS | Soap opera whose final episode, in 1991, was called Conundrum |
| CAT | Character in sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf played by Danny John-jules since the first episode in 1988 (3) |
| PILOT | First episode in a TV series |
| PARTONE | First episode in a miniseries 2 wds. |
| REINCARNATION | The belief that on the death of the body the soul is born again in another body (13) |
| HERIOT | Old fine due to the lord of the manor on the death of a tenant (6) |
| ABDULLAH | He ascended to the throne on the death of his father, King Hussein; King ... II of Jordan |
| STEPHEN | King of England 1135-54 who seized the throne on the death of Henry I (7) |
| THRENODY | Poem or song of mourning or lamentation such as that written by Ralph Waldo Emerson on the death of his son in 1842 (8) |
| THEGREATEST | "Muhammad Ali was _ _. Period", Barack Obama on the death of The Champ (3,8) |
| RELIST | Tribute paid to a lord on the death of a tenant in Anglo-Saxon England (6) |
| STUART | Dynasty that succeeded the Tudors, ending on the death of Queen Anne (6) |
| ADONAIS | Elegy written by Percy Bysshe Shelley on the death of John Keats in 1821 |
| HENRYVI | English ruler who lived 1421-71, becoming king on the death of his father in 1422 (5,2) |
| GRAY | Thomas, 18th-century poet whose works include Ode On The Death Of A Favourite Cat (4) |
| GOODCAREER | Upset over comrade with ego, 14 on the death of 27 1? (4,6,4) |
| OUTOUTBRIEFCANDLE | Phrase from Macbeth's speech on the death of his queen |
| ODE | "An ___, on the Death of Mr. Henry Purcell" (John Dryden poem) |
| ZODIAC | In astrology, a circle of twelve 30 degree divisions of celestial longitude centred on the ecliptic |