| REYKJAVIK | Most northerly capital of a sovereign state |
| TERRITORY | Area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state (9) |
| OSLO | Europe's second most northerly capital |
| TU | What is the most northerly capital in Africa? (5) |
| TUNIS | What is the most northerly capital in Africa? (5) |
| MONACO | Day a senior officer comes to a sovereign state |
| REALM | A sovereign state (5) |
| TIMOR | Island whose eastern half is a sovereign state |
| SCROLL | Volute or similar motif in the form of a curl of paper/parchment, as seen in art, on the capital of a column or at the end of a stringed instrument such as a violin (6) |
| SAOPAULO | Most populous city of Brazil; capital of a southern state of the same name (3,5) |
| MAJESTY | A title used to address or refer to a sovereign or the wife or widow of a sovereign (7) |
| ABACUS | A block or tablet on the capital of a classical architectural column; or, a frame with beads for counting units, tens, hundreds etc, that is the ancient ancestor of the modern calculator (6) |
| VICEROY | Governor of a country, ruling as the representative of a sovereign; name for Indian restaurants in Hyde and Handforth (7) |
| BOARD | The household, palace and retinue of a sovereign; a patio; or, a clay area on which to play tennis (5) |
| VICTORIA | Duke of Wellington at Waterloo, one ahead of a sovereign (8) |
| REIGN | Period of the rule of a sovereign (5) |
| LIEGE | Largest French-speaking city in Belgium, capital of a state of the same name (5) |
| GRANADA | A city in Andalusia, southern Spain; capital of a Moorish kingdom of the same name from 1238 to 1492 (7) |
| WARSAW | Capital of a European Union state (6) |
| SHARE | Fixed and indivisible section of the capital of a company (5) |
