| FRANZ | ___ Ferdinand, whose assassination set off WWI |
| ARCHDUKE | Royal title of Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination triggered WWI (8) |
| FERDINAND | Franz ___, Austro-Hungarian archduke whose assassination sparked off WWI (9) |
| MARAT | French revolutionary leader whose assassination in a bath by Girondin sympathiser Charlotte Corday is depicted in a painting by Jacques-Louis David (5) |
| EDWARD | King whose assassination at Corfe Castle is associated with the tradition or ceremony of the loving cup (6) |
| KIROV | Sergei, Soviet politician whose assassination in 1934 led to Stalin's purge of the Communist Party (5) |
| KENNEDY | US president whose assassination was the subject of a 1991 film by Oliver Stone (7) |
| ANTON | ___ Ferdinand, younger brother of Rio (5) |
| RIO | ___ Ferdinand, former England defender (3) |
| LES | _ Ferdinand, former Spurs and England footballer (3) |
| SAEAJEVO | Which city saw the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand? (8) |
| SARAJEVO | City where the 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand triggered World War I (8) |
| NOIRET | Philippe ___, actor whose roles included Monsieur Lucoville in 1969 adventure film The Assassination |
| DECIBEL | A sound measure in winter relating to tip off of character assassination (7) |
| RIGG | Diana, actress whose film roles include Sonya Winter in The Assassination Bureau (4) |
| ICLAUDIUS | Novel by English writer Robert Graves dealing with the history of the Roman Empire from Julius Caesar's assassination in 44BC to Caligula's assassination in AD41 (1,8) |
| LAURAKEENE | Actress and manager whose company's performance of play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre, Washington, DC was attended by Abraham Lincoln on the night of his assassination (5,5) |
| BECKET | Archbishop of Canterbury whose opposition to Henry II resulted in his assassination by four knights in his cathedral in 1170 and subsequent canonisation (6) |
| JETSAM | Philippe -, actor whose roles included Monsieur Lucoville in 1969 adventure film The Assassination Bureau (6) |
| WWI | Conflict that began in the wake of Franz Ferdinand's assassination: Abbr. |
