| MONARCH | Hereditary sovereign (7) |
| DYNASTY | Hereditary line of rulers (7) |
| SHOGUNS | Hereditary military commanders of feudal Japan (7) |
| BARONET | Lowest hereditary rank of British nobility (7) |
| DUCHESS | Woman with hereditary title (7) |
| HYGIENE | Sanitation elevated hereditary factor in report (7) |
| GENETIC | Hereditary name knight, say, rejected (7) |
| PEERAGE | British hereditary nobility (7) |
| MILLAIS | Painter noted for works including Ophelia, Autumn Leaves, Chill October and Bubbles; created a baronet by Queen Victoria in 1885, he was the first artist to be honoured with a hereditary title (7) |
| GENESIS | Hereditary factors are singularly evident from birth (7) |
| TYRANNY | "All hereditary government is in its nature ___" - Thomas Paine, 1791 (7) |
| GEMMULE | Hereditary particle Darwin postulated in his theory of pangenesis (7) |
| ADMIRAL | The head of the Le Strange family of Hunstanton still holds the hereditary title of Lord High .... of the Wash (7) |
| MISCAST | Lose those with hereditary privileges, they say - got the actors wrong! (7) |
| DUKEDOM | Rank of the highest British hereditary peer (7) |
| EARLDOM | Rank of a hereditary peer, husband of a countess (7) |
| SERFDOM | In the Middle Ages, a state of bondage to a hereditary plot of land and to the landlord's will (7) |
| NORFOLK | England's premier dukedom: the title of the hereditary Earl Marshal of England (7) |
| STRAINS | Injuries sustained from overexertion; pedigrees; hereditary characteristics; or, particular varieties of microbes etc (7) |
| HIDALGO | Hereditary Spanish nobleman of the lowest class; literally, 'son of something' (7) |
