| HENRYS | The first two Tudor kings |
| HENRY | One of two Tudor kings |
| HENRYVII | The first Tudor king (5,1,1,1) |
| RHAETIC | Name a Tudor king climbing on the rocks (7) |
| EIGHTH | Tudor king, Henry the ... |
| OUTDO | Nothing Tudor king left undone could surpass it (5) |
| PATRICK | Dad to fool Tudor king and U.S. orator (7,5) |
| CHANNINGTATUM | "Fly Me to the Moon" star (... the first two letters and the last two) |
| INITIALLY | At the start ... or how the first two letters of each starred clue relate to the answer? |
| CAROL | "Deck the Halls," for one ... or a hint to the first two letters of each word in the starred answers |
| BUZZALDRIN | Lunar module pilot on the Apollo 11 mission and one of the first two humans to land on the moon: 2 wds. |
| BLAKE | Illustrator of Roald Dahl's books including The BFG, The Twits and George's Marvellous Medicine, and the first two children's novels by David Walliams (5) |
| EMPEROR | The male of this type of regal-looking penguin incubates his mate's eggs for 60 days, eating nothing and losing as much as 45% of his body weight. The chick spends the first two months of its life on |
| TSITSIPAS | Tennis player Stefanos on the list after a breakout 2021; the first two syllables of his surname sound like the dangerous African fly |
| SAMUEL | Hebrew prophet and judge who anointed the first two kings of the Israelites |
| NOCLUE | "Haven't the foggiest!" ... or, when the first two letters are put at the end, an essential part of seven answers in this puzzle |
| JESSIE | First name of Ms J who was a coach on The Voice UK for the first two series (6) |
| VACLAV | First name of the first two presidents of the Czech Republic |
| SARA | First name of Ms Cox who presented the first two series of The Great Pottery Throwdown (4) |
| LIAM | Which F-1 racer drew as the second driver for Red Bull in the first two races in 2025 and replaced by Yuki Tsunoda from the third race? (4) |
