| RFK | Candidate killed in 1968, for short |
| BARBRA | She won an Oscar in 1968 for her first role in film, Fanny Brice in Funny Girl; singer ... Streisand |
| SST | New aircraft of 1968, for short |
| IRENASZEWINSKA | Born in Leningrad, which long jumper and sprinter won the Olympic gold medal in 1968 for the 200 met |
| OPENERA | It began in 1968, for tennis |
| SYMPATHY | Rolling Stones hit released in 1968, -------- for the Devil (8) |
| HARPERVALLEYPTA | Hit in 1968 for Jeannie C. Riley (6,6,1,1,1) |
| YURIGAGARIN | Russian cosmonaut killed in a plane accident in training in 1968 |
| CIRCUSELEPHANT | Celebrated pachyderm Jumbo, for one (He tragically was killed in 1885 when struck by a train in St. Thomas, Ontario): 2 wds. |
| GIANNIVERSACE | Italian fashion designer noted for his daring style who was killed in Florida in 1997 (6,7) |
| HOLLY | US songwriter killed in plane crash in 1959 (5,5) |
| BUDDY | US songwriter killed in plane crash in 1959 (5,5) |
| FALLEN | Killed in fine bog in Ireland |
| SLAIN | Killed in American city immersed in evil (5) |
| MAGELLAN | Ferdinand, Portuguese explorer killed in the Philippines in 1521 (8) |
| ICILY | Island in Med has head killed in a hostile manner |
| SLOVAKIA | Wild salvo: killed in action in state |
| OTISREDDING | US soul singer killed in an air crash in 1967 (4,7) |
| MARAT | Jean-Paul ---, Swiss-born radical journalist and politician in the French Revolution, killed in his bath tub (5) |
| GORDON | British general killed in the siege of Khartoum in 1885 (6) |
