| REGICIDE | Oliver Cromwell, for instance (8) |
| HUNTSMAN | Who cares for hounds? Cromwell, for instance? |
| IRONSIDE | Nickname for a cavalry trooper supporting Oliver Cromwell (8) |
| DROGHEDA | Port in Republic of Ireland, captured by Oliver Cromwell in 1649 (8) |
| MINCEPIE | Christmas food reportedly banned by Oliver Cromwell to tackle gluttony (5,3) |
| OLIVER | Cromwell, for example (6) |
| DESPOT | Penny, Earl and Mark Cromwell, for example (6) |
| THOMAS | Cromwell, for example, shot a revolutionary when holding mass (6) |
| IRONSIDES | For Oliver Cromwell you needed to press the trouser legs (9) |
| NASEBY | Village in Northamptonshire; site of a 1645 victory for Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War |
| LELY | Peter, Dutch painter noted for his 'warts and all' portrait of Oliver Cromwell (4) |
| LORDPROTECTOR | Oliver Cromwell, defender of the aristocracy? |
| SEYS | Attorney General under Oliver Cromwell |
| PURITAN | Oliver Cromwell follower |
| ROUNDHEAD | Oliver Cromwell supporter (9) |
| HUNTINGDON | Birthplace of Oliver Cromwell (10) |
| NOLL | "Old ___", Oliver Cromwell (4) |
| MINCEPIES | Festive dried fruit, spice and pastry confections that were traditionally savoury; the eating of which on Christmas Day, according to a myth about Oliver Cromwell, is illegal (5,4) |
| IRETON | Henry, English Parliamentarian general and son-inlaw of Oliver Cromwell (6) |
| ANDALL | A last drawn line initially exposed such an unprepossessing portrait of Oliver Cromwell (5,3,3) |
