| CHARLESMANSON | US cult leader who was jailed for life in 1971, and died in 2017 |
| MANSON | US cult leader Charles (6) |
| ZAP | Ousted Pakistani prime minister, who has been jailed for life |
| LIFERS | Prisoners jailed for life (6) |
| JIMJONES | American cult leader who led a mass suicide in Guyana in 1978 (3,5) |
| CAPONE | US gangster whose career ended when he was jailed for 11 years for tax fraud (6) |
| SEB | Corey Brent was jailed for killing ___ Franklin in Corrie (3) |
| HANOI | Bank of ___ (institution the A-Team was jailed for robbing) |
| SAM | SHE WAS JAILED FOR SHILOH'S MURDER (GH) |
| FLO | WAS JAILED FOR ADOPTION FRAUD (B&B) |
| AMIN | He was named president for life in 1976 and ousted in 1979 |
| SEANHUGHES | Stand-up comedian and actor, author of novels It's What He Would've Wanted and The Detainees, who died in 2017 (4,6) |
| RICHARDS | 1952-55 Collingwood captain and AFL commentator who died in 2017, Lou ... (8) |
| LONIANDERSON | Actress who played Jennifer Marlowe in the sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati, was later married to Burt Reynolds, and died in 2025 (4,8) |
| NASDAQ | US stock exchange founded in 1971 and based in New York City (6) |
| BROWNSUGAR | Single for the Rolling Stones in 1971 and D'Angelo in 1995 |
| ONEILL | Pulitzer-winning playwright who was born in a hotel and died in a hotel |
| TOMMYCOOPER | Comedian and magician who collapsed and died in front of millions of TV viewers in 1984 |
| GRANDMAMOSES | The apposite nickname of an American folk artist who was born in 1860 and died in 1961 |
| HELENA | Saint _, island in the South Atlantic where Napoleon was exiled to in 1815, and died in 1821 (6) |
