| HUSKISSON | William ___, MP and free trade pioneer, fatally wounded at the 1830 opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway |
| NELSON | Horatio - - -, naval hero who was fatally wounded at the Battle of Trafalgar (6) |
| LYTTON | 1st Baron ___; MP and author who coined the phrase "the pen is mightier than the sword"; a friend of Disraeli and Dickens who wrote The Last Days of Pompeii (6) |
| MERCER | Johnny _, MP and Minister of State for Veterans' Affairs (6) |
| BARSS | Captain of the Liverpool Packet |
| ECHO | Previous name of the Liverpool Arena (4) |
| ASTOR | Fur trade pioneer |
| AVALON | Legendary island to which King Arthur was conveyed after being mortally wounded at the Battle of Camlann (6) |
| WEAVER | ___ Junction, for the Liverpool and Manchester lines south of Runcorn (6) |
| GORED | Wounded at the corrida |
| CHAT | ___ Moss, across which Stephenson 'floated' the Liverpool & Manchester Railway (4) |
| SAMUELMORSE | US inventor and painter of the 1830 work The Chapel of the Virgin at Subiaco (6,5) |
| REDCROWNTAVERN | The ____ and Tourist Cabins in Missouri was the site of a 1933 gun battle, after which two members of Bonnie and Clyde's gang were captured or fatally wounded |
| SIDNEY | Born at Penshurst Place in 1554 and fatally wounded in battle 31 years later, a poet, soldier and courtier who wrote the pastoral prose romance Arcadia (6) |
| COBBETT | William ?, author of the 1830 collection of observations Rural Rides (7) |
| TERRYHANDS | English theatre director who founded the Liverpool Everyman Theatre and ran the RSC for 13 years |
| MENDELSSOHN | Composer of the 1830 overture The Hebrides (11) |
| PARIS | Son of Priam and Hecuba in Greek mythology who fatally wounded Achilles (5) |
| WILLIAMII | Known as Rufus, king of England from 1087-1100 who was fatally wounded by an arrow while hunting (7,1,1) |
| BRYANT | Sir Chris __, MP for Rhondda and chair of the Commons Committee on Standards (6) |
