| HATFIELD | House in Hertfordshire built for Robert Cecil in 1611, home to the Rainbow portrait of Elizabeth I bearing the motto Non sine sole iris (no rainbow without the sun) (8) |
| RCABUILDING | NYC home to the Rainbow Room |
| CASTRODISTRICT | S.F. neighborhood home to the Rainbow Honor Walk |
| WOBURN | Village in Bedfordshire, home to a former monastery whose private art collection includes one of the three versions of the Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I (6) |
| PEARLS | Gems of the sea and birthstones of June, such as the approximately 800 depicted in the Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I (6) |
| BURGHLEY | ___ House, Lincolnshire country residence built for William Cecil in the late 16th century (8) |
| LICENSE | Permission for Cecil in France maybe (7) |
| PHOENIX | Mythical bird symbolising rebirth that is depicted in one of the portraits of Elizabeth I attributed to Nicholas Hilliard other than the 'Pelican' (7) |
| IRIS | Goddess whose name is given poetically to the rainbow; a coloured part of the eye; a purple or yellow "fleur-de-lis"; or, a rainbow quartz (4) |
| IRISHJIG | Dance over the water to the rainbow; Henry James is generally the tops (5,3) |
| GHETTO | This word is derived from the Italian dialect form gheto, "foundry," which refers to the Venetian island where Jews were forced to live during the 16th century. The English term came into use by 1611. |
| CHARTERHOUSE | Public school in Surrey founded in London in 1611 (12) |
| HENRYHUDSON | Man set adrift in James Bay in 1611 by his mutinous crew (5,6) |
| FIVER | Where to see portrait of Elizabeth Fry, note |
| OVER | Oz, in relation to the rainbow |
| ANNIGONI | Pietro ___, Italian artist who did a number of popular portraits of Elizabeth II (8) |
| INTL | The "I" in I.B.M.: Abbr. |
| MIRANDA | Daughter of Prospero and only human female character in Shakespeare's The Tempest (1611) |
| DARTAGNAN | Protagonist of Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers based on the real-life Charles de Batz de Castelmore (1611-73) |
| IRIDIAN | Relating to the rainbow (7) |
