| ABSALOM | Third son of King David who rebelled against his father and was killed at the Battle of EphraimWood (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) |
| OWEN | Poet who won a Military Cross and was killed one week before the end of World War I (4) |
| WARWICK | 16th Earl of -; title of Richard Neville the "Kingmaker", a Yorkist turned Lancastrian during the Wars of the Roses who was killed at the Battle of Barnet (7) |
| LEONIDAS | King of Sparta who was killed at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C. (8) |
| ALAIN | Jehan ..., French organist and composer of Litanies, who was killed at the Battle of Saumur in 1940 (5) |
| OEDIPUS | Son of King Laius and Queen Jocasta of Thebes who killed his father and married his mother |
| NELSON | Which viscount was killed at the battle of Trafalgar (6) |
| EDWARDTHEMARTYR | Son of Edgar the Peaceful who was king from 975 until 978, when he was killed at Corfe Castle (6,3,6) |
| MORDRED | In Arthurian legend, the king's illegitimate son, killed at the battle of Camlann (7) |
| HEZEKIAH | Last king of Judah, who rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar and died in captivity at Babylon (8) |
| PELOPS | Son of Tantalus in Greek mythology who was killed by his father and served to the gods as a meal (6) |
| THIRD | Ordinal number of King Richard, killed at the battle of Bosworth Field in 1485 (5) |
| HOTSPUR | Nickname of the English soldier Sir Henry Percy, killed at the Battle of Shrewsbury in 1403 (7) |
| CUSTER | George Armstrong ?, US lieutenant colonel killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876 |
| ADONIJAH | The fourth son of King David according to the book of Samuel |
| HAROLD | English king killed at the Battle of Hastings |
| CROCKETT | Davy ?, US frontiersman killed at the Battle of the Alamo in 1836 |
| LORDCLIFFORD | Character in Henry VI, Part III killed at the battle of Towton (4,8) |
| LLOYD | Writer and horticulturist whose lifelong home at Great Dixter was remodelled and restored by his father and Edwin Lutyens in 1910-12 (5) |
