| BOURBONS | Members, including Good King Henry and the Sun King, of a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty; fragrant pink perpetual roses from an island once named after said house; or, chocolate sandwich biscuit |
| VALOIS | Branch of the Capetian dynasty, members of which occupied the French throne from 1328 to 1589 (6) |
| ACTED | Played the part of a cadet at sea |
| WEEDS | Creeping Charlie and Good-King-Henry |
| ORLEANS | Duc d' -; title upon the death of his uncle Gaston of Philippe I who was the younger brother of the Sun King and bought Chateau de Saint- Cloud for 240,000 livres in 1658(7) |
| FRUIT | General word for one of the types of food grown by French gardener La Quintinie at Le Potager du Roi for the table of the Sun King, Louis XIV (5) |
| COUPERIN | Known as "le Grand", a composer and harpsichordist who served at the court of the Sun King, Louis XIV (8) |
| DOYLE | Roddy -, author of the novels A Star Called Henry and The Woman Who Walked into Doors (5) |
| BOULLE | French cabinetmaker to the Sun King who perfected a form of brass and-tortoiseshell marquetry (6) |
| KNELLER | Artist who painted the Hampton Court Beauties series and portraits of Kit-Cat Club members including Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, John Vanbrugh and Robert Walpole (7) |
| LOUISXIV | Depicted by George Blagden in the television drama Versailles, the Bourbon monarch known as the Sun King (5,1,1,1) |
| LULLY | Composer who founded French opera at the court of Louis XIV the Sun King (5) |
| MAGORIAN | Children's author of Just Henry and the classic wartime story Goodnight Mister Tom that was adapted into a family film featuring John Thaw (8) |
| VERSAILLES | BBC2 television drama based on the reign of the Sun King (10) |
| LOUIS | --- XIV, King of France 1643-1715, known as the Sun King (5) |
| OMEGA | - Workshop; design collective founded by Roger Fry whose pieces created by members including Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant were all signed (5) |
| NEWSPAPERMAN | Possibly the Sun King's disseminator of information? |
| STEPS | Pop group with members including Faye Tozer and Ian 'H' Watkins (5) |
| RHYS | Jean -; author of novels including Good Morning, Midnight and Wide Sargasso Sea (4) |
| HALMA | Henry and the old woman are game (5) |
