| HOUSES | Royal family lines or dynasties; or, publishing companies (6) |
| EDITOR | Newspaper or publishing boss who was 'demanding three inches of wit and six lines of religious medit |
| ANCESTRY | Family line or descent |
| PRINTERS | Publishing companies (8) |
| PIPING | Fabric-covered cord for trimming the edges of cushions or garments such as pyjamas; or, lines or twists of icing or whipped cream for decorating cakes or puddings (6) |
| PENCIL | An artist's fine paintbrush or individual style in drawing; a stick of graphite or kohl; a narrow beam of light; or, an aggregate of lines or rays, converging to a point (6) |
| INBRED | At home with money, we're told, like some dynasties (6) |
| SLOGAN | "End of dynasties" - people in India with a new battle cry (6) |
| CUSACK | Copper discharge for Irish and American acting dynasties (6) |
| SEMTEX | In geometry, the point where two or more curves, lines or edges meet (6) |
| BRANCH | Any one of a railway's minor or heritage lines; or, section of a tree forming part of a forest's canopy (6) |
| ROPERY | A place or "walk" where stout twisted cords are made; a system of said lines; or, knavery/trickery (6) |
| RULING | Word for an act of drawing or printing straight parallel lines; or, a determination by a judge (6) |
| DESIGN | Condescend to include second arrangement of lines or shapes (6) |
| DOTTED | Like many lines or just two letters (6) |
| CORNER | The place at which two converging lines or surfaces meet. (6) |
| PALACE | Residence of the former Chinese dynasties, the Imperial ... |
| STIRPE | Lit., by root therefore, by family line: radice, genere |
| CLEATS | T-shaped nautical devices for securing lines or ropes with hitch knots when mooring boats (6) |
| ANGLES | Distances between two lines or surfaces diverging from the same point and measured in degrees (6) |
