| Answer | Crossword Clue |
|---|---|
| AARON | He killed Alexander in a duel |
| DECATUR | Naval hero killed in a duel |
| SPENCER | Actor killed by Ben Jonson in a duel. |
| ROMEO | He slew Tybalt in a duel. |
| passive | Denoting or relating to a voice of verbs in which the subject undergoes the action of the verb (e.g., they were killed as opposed to he killed them) |
| bluebeard | A character in a tale by Charles Perrault, who killed several wives in turn for disobeying his order to avoid a locked room, which contained the bodies of his previous wives. Local tradition in Brittany identifies him with Gilles de Rais (c.1400รป40), a perpetrator of atrocities, although he had only one wife (who left him) |
