| DIVORCE | The dissolution of a marriage by judgment of a court (7) |
| LYASE | In biochemistry, an enzyme that catalyses the dissolution of a molecule by forming a double bond between its parts (5) |
| VERDICT | Composer caught by judgment (7) |
| MARSHAL | A law officer having duties similar to those of a sheriff in carrying out the judgments of a court of law. |
| CARTMEL | All that is left of this 12th century Cumbrian priory is a church, saved after Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries (7) |
| YELTSIN | Which Boris was instrumental in the formal dissolution of the Soviet Union? (7) |
| ROBERTASKE | The rebel leader of the Pilgrimage of Grace, a protest against the dissolution of the monasteries |
| FRIERNBARNET | North London suburb whose name recalls that it belonged to the Order of Knights of St John of Jerusalem until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s (6,6) |
| WEDDING | Marriage by English senior cleric through Zoom? (7) |
| RICH | Henry VIII's minister who played a key role in the trials of Sir Thomas More and John Fisher as well as the downfall of Sir Thomas Cromwell and the dissolution of the monasteries (4) |
| MARITAL | In nature of a marriage for master and girl pupil |
| WALTHAMABBEY | Essex church which housed the last religious community to be closed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries (7,5) |
| PILGRIMAGEOFGRACE | A rising in Yorkshire in 1536-37 brought about by enclosures and religious changes culminating in the dissolution of the monasteries (10,2,5) |
| SENTENCE | Judgment of a court in a number of words (8) |
| DECREE | An order or judgment of a court made after hearing a suit (6) |
| THOMASCROMWELL | King Henry VIII's chief adviser largely responsible for the dissolution of the monasteries, executed for treason in 1540 (6,8) |
| OPENSECRET | Everyone knows it begins with the dissolution of Crete (4,6) |
| DISORDERED | In confusion after the dissolution of monasteries? (10) |
| TASTE | Experience the dissolution of state (5) |
| APERFECTSPY | 1986 John le Carre novel about the mental and moral dissolution of a secret agent called Magnus Pym |
