| SEQUENCE | Hymn the succession |
| ISOER | Hymn "The Strife ___, the Battle Done" |
| BILLOFRIGHTS | English constitutional settlement of 1689 entitled An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown (4,2,6) |
| WHIG | Member of the English political party that opposed the succession to the throne of James, Duke of Yo |
| WHIGS | Members of the English political party that opposed the succession to the throne of James II (5) |
| NANCY | French city, burned in 1218 during the War of the Succession of Champagne (5) |
| CYMBELINE | King of century unknown, honour the succession (9) |
| OUTOFTHERUNNING | No longer managing, being excluded from the succession |
| ACTOFSETTLEMENT | Piece of legislation from 1701 limiting the succession to Protestants (3,2,10) |
| ANHEIRANDASPARE | Aristocratic young couple needed to maintain the succession (2,4,3,1,5) |
| LINEAGE | Ancestry shows how old the succession is (7) |
| UTRECHT | The Treaty of ... in 1713 ended the War of the Spanish Succession (7) |
| EUGENIE | Princess who is eighth in the line of succession to the throne of the UK (7) |
| OUDENARDE | Battle of ?, July 1708 conflict in the War of the Spanish Succession that resulted in victory for the Allies over France (9) |
| DOUBLEHEADER | Two baseball games played in succession between the same teams on the same day |
| SAXE | A French marshal who distinguished himself in the War of the Austrian Succession (1696-1750). |
| MARLBOROUGH | Duke of ?, Allied commander-in-chief in the War of the Spanish Succession (11) |
| SWEDEN | Scandinavian constitutional monarchy which in 1980 introduced equal succession rights to the throne for female members of the royal family |
| XIV | Louis ___ (War of the Spanish Succession king) |
| SALIC | Law of the French succession |
