| IMOLA | Italian race track where Brazilian driver Ayrton Senna was killed in a crash in 1994 (5) |
| RINDT | Jochen ..... , Austrian F1 driver who died in a crash in 1970 (5) |
| AYRTONSENNA | Three-time Formula One world champion killed in a crash while leading the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix (6,5) |
| AYRTON | - Senna, was Fl world champion three times (6) |
| MAGELLAN | Portuguese explorer who led and organised part of the expedition that resulted in the first circumnavigation of Earth before he was killed in a skirmish (8) |
| PUSHKIN | Which poet, considered Russia's greatest, was killed in a duel at age 37? (7) |
| MARLOWE | Elizabethan dramatist, apparent spy and member of the esoteric "School of Night" who wrote Tamburlaine the Great and was killed in a tavern brawl (7) |
| JONES | American locomotive engineer - killed in a train crash and the subject of a famous ballad (5, 5) |
| CLINE | Professional name of US singer Virginia Patterson Hensley, killed in a plane crash in 1963 (5,5) |
| PATSY | Professional name of US singer Virginia Patterson Hensley, killed in a plane crash in 1963 (5,5) |
| SENNA | Which Brazilian driver died in an accident at the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix? (5) |
| BRAIN | Dennis, British horn-player killed in a car crash in 1957 (5) |
| PRANG | A crash in a car (5) |
| SILVA | Three time Formula One champion, Ayrton Senna da ... (5) |
| ALIVE | 1993 movie about surviving a crash in the Andes |
| BAMBI | His mother is killed, in a 1942 Disney film (5) |
| ICILY | Island in Med has head killed in a hostile manner |
| MARAT | He was killed in his bath |
| RHINO | Animal in a crash, informally |
| DUMMY | "Person" in a crash test |