| EPONYM | The Earl of Sandwich, for one |
| GOLFCLUB | Whip up a type of sandwich for the driver (4-4) |
| SUB | Type of sandwich, for short |
| EDWARD | Forename of the Earl of Wessex, the youngest of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh's four children (6) |
| BREAD | Baked food used to make the snack invented by John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (5) |
| MONTAGU | Earl of Sandwich name |
| GLAMIS | Castle in the heart of Angus, ancestral seat of the Earls of Strathmore and Kinghorne since 1372, childhood home of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (6) |
| WILTON | - House; situated in Wiltshire near the confluence of the rivers Wylye and Nadder, seat of the Earls of Pembroke since its granting by Henry VIII to Sir William Herbert in 1544 (6) |
| EDGAR | In Shakespeare's King Lear, who is the legitimate son of the Earl of Gloucester? (5) |
| LOWTHER | ? Castle, former family seat of the Earl of Londsdale south of Penrith, Cumbria (7) |
| PROTHALAMION | Spousal verse by Edmund Spenser, in honour of two daughters of the Earl of Worcester |
| OTTERBURN | Moonlit battle in 1388 in which the Scots led by the Earl of Douglas defeated the English led by brothers Harry Hotspur and Sir Ralph Percy (9) |
| PRINCEEDWARD | Member of the royal family titled the Earl of Wessex (6,6) |
| NEAGH | Freshwater lake or lough in Northern Ireland owned by the Earl of Shaftesbury that is the largest lake by area in the British Isles (5) |
| SIMNEL | Lambert _, pretender to the throne of England who claimed to be the Earl of Warwick (6) |
| AUCHTERARDER | Town near Perth which was burnt down in 1716 by the Earl of Mar's Jacobites after the battle of Sheriffmuir in 1715 (12) |
| LAMBERT | --- Simnel, imposter who claimed to be the Earl of Warwick during the reign of Henry VII (7) |
| ANNEHYDE | Daughter of the Earl of Clarendon who married James, Duke of York, in 1660 (4,4) |
| WESSEX | One of Prince Edward's royal titles has been the Earl of _ (6) |
| MARYQUEENOF | Sovereign who, in turn, married Francis, the Dauphin of France in 1558, her cousin Lord Damley in 1565 and two years later, the Earl of Bothwell (4,5,2,5) |
