| QUEENMARY | 16th-century monarch who restored Catholicism (5,4) |
| ELIZABETH | 16th-century monarch credited with presenting 91-/100-Acrosses to guests |
| EASTERNER | Sneer at corrupt monarch who might hail from Java? |
| FLOORSHOW | Fool disturbed monarch who's modified form of entertainment (5,4) |
| MORTALSIN | Serious transgression, in Catholicism |
| ROMANISED | Arabs embarrassed about being converted to Catholicism |
| ELEVATION | In Roman Catholicism, the ritual raising of the Host (consecrated bread) at Mass for adoration (9) |
| III | 18th- and 19th-century monarch George ___ |
| FREDDIETHEGREAT | 18th-century monarch, too familiarly? |
| ATTILATHEHUN | Feared 5th-century monarch |
| QUEENANNESLACE | Part of an 18th-century monarch's shoe? (3 wds.) |
| LEONARDO | Artist who restored "Lorna Doe" (8) |
| ISIS | Goddess who restored Osiris to life |
| ASTOR | William Waldorf ___, US millionaire who restored Hever Castle and created its gardens (5) |
| LORIMER | Exponent of the Arts and Crafts style of architecture who restored a number of historic houses and castles and designed Ardkinglas House; or, a maker of metal bridle parts (7) |
| CHIPS | Nickname of author, diarist and politician Sir Henry Channon who restored Kelvedon Hall; tokens for blackjack, poker or roulette; pommes frites; or, slices of dried banana (5) |
| ANANIAS | Disciple who restored the sight of Saul at Damascus (Acts 9:18) (7) |
| PURITANS | 16th and 17th century religious reformists who aimed to remove the vestiges of Roman Catholicism remaining after the Elizabethan settlement (8) |
| ECK | Johann __, 16th-century defender of Catholicism |
| KINGCHARLES | French monarch who ordered the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, 1572 |
