Rating | Solver | Clue |
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SLAYINGS | Murders | |
KILLINGS | Murders | |
SLAYS | Murders | |
HOMICIDES | Murders | |
ASSASSINATIONS | Political murders | |
UXORICIDE | One who murders his wife. | |
MATRICIDE | One who murders one's own mother. | |
FRATRICIDE | One who murders or kills his own brother. | |
PATRICIDE | The crime of one who murders his father. Same as Parricide. | |
SORORICIDE | The murder of one's sister; also, one who murders or kills one's own sister. | |
REGICIDE | One who kills or who murders a king; specifically (Eng.Hist.), one of the judges who condemned Charles I. to death. | |
ASSASSIN | One who kills, or attempts to kill, by surprise or secret assault; one who treacherously murders any one unprepared for defense. | |
PARRICIDE | Properly, one who murders one's own father; in a wider sense, one who murders one's father or mother or any ancestor. | |
FORFEIT | ... hence, a fine; a mulct; a penalty; as, he who murders pays the forfeit of his life. ... |