| CLARENDON | Chief adviser to Charles II |
| CUMMINGS | Dominic ___, chief adviser to the prime minister (8) |
| COLBERT | French comptroller-general of finances 1661-83; chief adviser to Louis XIV (7) |
| MORDECAI | Cousin and adoptive father of Esther who became chief adviser to King Ahasuerus (Esther 2-9) (8) |
| LAUD | William ___, Archbishop of Canterbury and religious adviser to Charles I |
| MONCK | Originally Cromwell's commander-in-chief in Scotland, the Devon-born soldier who later became a key figure in negotiating the restoration of the monarchy to Charles II in 1660 (5) |
| NELL | - Gwyn, mistress to Charles II (4) |
| LELY | Court painter to Charles II |
| TOFT | Staffordshire slipware potter whose designs ranged from unicorns, wyverns, mermaids, pelicans with cross-hatched borders to Charles II in the Boscobel Oak (4) |
| CONSULTANT | Tory leader meets Turkey's chief adviser (10) |
| ELDER | Chief's adviser |
| THOMASCROMWELL | King Henry VIII's chief adviser largely responsible for the dissolution of the monasteries, executed for treason in 1540 (6,8) |
| WOLSEY | Orchestrator of the Field of the Cloth of Gold and inventor of the combination of strawberries and cream who was Henry VIII's chief adviser, often called "alter rex" (6) |
| THEODORA | Byzantine empress (527-48), wife and chief adviser of Justinian I (8) |
| AGRIPPA | Marcus, Roman general who was chief adviser of Augustus (7) |
| BANGKOK | City where the meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the chief adviser of the interim government of Bangladesh took place. (7) |
| FAUCI | Chief medical adviser to Biden |
| ATTORNEYGENERAL | Chief legal adviser to the government (8-7) |
| BACKSEATDRIVER | Annoying adviser to support sending a set to club (4-4,6) |
| ANGELA | ____ Kelly, fashion designer who was an adviser to Queen Elizabeth II (6) |
