| LADY | Address for a countess |
| MILADY | Address for a countess |
| EARL | Male equivalent of a countess; or, in Anglo-Saxon England, a man of noble rank as opposed to a churl (4) |
| EARLDOM | Rank of a hereditary peer, husband of a countess (7) |
| TESSA | Name a countess always has |
| EARLY | Soon befitting the husband of a countess? (5) |
| EARLIER | Previously husband of a countess? That's right! (7) |
| GOSFORDPARK | 2001 murder mystery film in which Maggie Smith played a countess with financial problems: 2 wds. |
| JEMMA | First name of Jodie Kidd's sister, who is a countess (5) |
| DUNEBUGGY | In the James Bond film, For Your Eyes Only, the Countess is killed by a ... driven by the villain (4 |
| MAPPERTON | Home to the Earl and Countess of Sandwich in Hardy country that was used as a location for the 2015 film Far from the Madding Crowd (9) |
| FINCH | Poet who held the title Countess of Winchilsea and wrote A Letter to Daphnis, A Nocturnal Reverie, To the Nightingale and The Owl Describing her Young Ones (5) |
| NOBLE | Meaning "noted" or "high-born", an aristocrat such as a baron, countess, duchess, duke, earl, marquess or a viscount (5) |
| OLIVIA | "Twelfth Night" countess in a "most extracting frenzy" |
| ADA | Computer language named for the Countess of Lovelace |
| LADYGODIVA | 11th Century Countess of Mercia who rode naked through Coventry in a protest against taxation (4,6) |
| SIDNEY | And 23 College of the University of Cambridge named after a 16th Century countess (6,6) |
| SUSSEX | College of the University of Cambridge named after a 16th Century countess (6,6) |
| MAGGIESMITH | English actress, made a Dame in 1990, who plays the Dowager Countess of Grantham in Downton Abbey |
| HARDWICK | - Hall; Elizabethan house in Derbyshire designed by Robert Smythson for the Countess of Shrewsbury known as Bess (8) |
