| KILLER | Someone who causes the death of a person or animal (6) |
| HERIOT | A fine due to a lord of the manor on the death of a tenant (6) |
| ALBINO | A person or animal with a congenital absence of pigment in the skin, eyes and hair (6) |
| STATUE | A sculptured, cast, carved or molded figure of a person or animal |
| RELIST | Feudal tribute due to a lord on the death of a tenant (6) |
| SEDATE | To cause a person or animal to be calm by giving them a drug (6) |
| STANCE | The manner and position in which a person or animal stands (6) |
| STARVE | Deprive a person or animal of food (6) |
| CAPTOR | One who catches a person or animal (6) |
| SHIVAH | In Judaism, seven day mourning period after the death of a relative (6) |
| VANDAL | Person who causes damage (6) |
| TYRANT | Ruler who causes misery and suffering |
| YAHRZEIT | Anniversary of the death of a parent or other close relative, typically marked by the lighting of a candle (8) |
| EVENTUALIS | Climate activists used this Greek legal word and concept to describe government's climate protection inertia: Where a person can foresee that their conduct is likely to cause the death of another, but |
| DERAILS | Reads out about the Italian who causes the accident (7) |
| SPECIMEN | A typical example; a remarkable type; a sample of blood, plasma, tissue etc, for diagnostic analysis; or, derogatorily, a person or animal (8) |
| KILLS | Causes the death of (5) |
| TRIPPERGORE | Ex-D.C. marathoner who causes the worst spill |
| SABOTEUR | Someone who causes malicious injury in order to undermine (8) |
| ASP | Venomous snake that reputedly cause the death of Cleopatra (3) |