| PRETENDTO | Put in a claim for, as a throne |
| STAKE | Put in a claim for prize money |
| SEAT | Item such as a throne, saddle, settle or S-shaped tete-a-tete; one's place in a theatre, train or at a table; or, a parliamentary constituency (4) |
| PUTINFOR | Make a claim for |
| MAGICAL | An enchanting way to make a claim for the silver (7) |
| SAC | Some press a claim for bag |
| PUTIN | Submitted a claim for overtime? (3,2) |
| DAIS | A raised platform as a throne, seats of honour |
| WHALES | What, in a claim by a Japanese government minister, deny starving people food by eating fish? (6) |
| MUSICAL | Sort of show us in a claim that's adjusted (7) |
| USURP | Seize and hold, as a throne |
| LOTUS | Flower that may serve as a throne |
| USURPED | Took by force, as a throne |
| MEGALOMANIAC | Power-mad sort from an isle in a claim skewed with ego (12) |
| MAJOLICA | A little woman put in disputed claim for pottery (8) |
| SCAM | This came with a deceitful claim for a scheme |
| SUES | Files a legal claim for damages |
| EXPENSEACCOUNT | Note in former writer's story making claim for payment |
| PULTURE | Hoarding in previous month, utter claim for subsistence |
| ITALIC | Could make a bit of capital, I claim, for this script (6) |
