| IGNORANCE | Lack of understanding displayed by sovereign or ancestor |
| IGNORAMUS | No intellectual is entertained by sovereign - or amused |
| CLONE | A group of organism produced asexually from one stock or ancestor |
| TAKEAFTER | Resemble parent or ancestor in character, feature etc.? (4,5) |
| PROGENITRIX | Female parent or ancestor |
| RELATIVEDENSITY | Lack of understanding among the family in a matter of property, or vice versa (8,7) |
| SLOWNESS | School leader depressed by head showing lack of understanding (8) |
| INCOMPREHENSION | Most of wage woman's turned into retirement fund, showing lack of understanding |
| NOTASFARASIKNOW | Lack of understanding about shorter distance a ski won by (3,2,3,2,1,4) |
| BLINDSPOT | A lack of understanding in the place one can't see (5,4) |
| MAJESTY | A title used to address or refer to a sovereign or the wife or widow of a sovereign (7) |
| QUIPPED | Course gone round by sovereign was full of cracks? |
| TRACE | Find row of houses abandoned by sovereign (5) |
| PROVINCE | District of Old Vienna initially held by sovereign's son (8) |
| VICEROY | Governor of a colony, country or province who rules in the name of his sovereign or government (7) |
| EDICTS | Decrees, orders or ordinances issued by a sovereign or state (6) |
| CORONATION | The ceremony of crowning a sovereign or a sovereign's consort (10) |
| EDICT | A decree or order issued by a sovereign or state (5) |
| MAUNDY | Money given by sovereign in Holy Week (6) |
| PRECIPICE | It's very steep price, at first absurd, then reduced by sovereign |