| GARFIELD | U.S. president assassinated in 1881 (8) |
| MCKINLEY | William, U.S. president assassinated in 1901 (8) |
| LANGMUIR | Irving, Nobel Prize-winning U.S. chemist and engineer born in 1881 (8) |
| ONSPILLEDBLOOD | St Petersburg's Church of the Saviour ____ was built where Alexander II was assassinated in 1881 |
| ALEXANDER | Russian tsar assassinated in 1881, _ II (9) |
| WILLIAMMCKINLEY | US Republican president assassinated in office by anarchist Leon Czolgosz in 1901 (7,8) |
| ABERDEEN | City in South Dakota (pop about 30,000), founded in 1881 (8) |
| CAPEBEAR | ___ ___ Lighthouse (Built in 1881, it's a Designated Heritage Place and is in Prince Edward Island) |
| THESSALY | Ancient region of northern Greece taken by the Turks in the late 14th century and ceded back in 1881 (8) |
| PRESCOTT | Small city in Arizona (pop about 45,000), incorporated in 1881 (8) |
| DYSLEXIA | Difficulty in learning to read, identified by Oswald Berkhan in 1881 (8) |
| WESLEYAN | Connecticut university founded in 1881, _ University (8) |
| ASHGABAT | Central of Turkmenistan, founded in 1881 as a military fortification (8) |
| HEE | Park Chung ___ (South Korean president assassinated in 1979) |
| SADAT | President assassinated in 1981 |
| KENNEDY | US president assassinated in Dallas |
| ABRAHAM | US president assassinated in 1865 (7,7) |
| LINCOLN | US president assassinated in 1865 (7,7) |
| ANWARSADAT | Egyptian president assassinated in 1981 (5,5) |
| ABRAHAMLINCOLN | US president assassinated in 1865 (7,7) |