| ETHELRED | ___ the Unready, Anglo-Saxon English king who was the father of Edward the Confessor (8) |
| HAROLD | ____ II, last crowned Anglo-Saxon English king, who reigned in 1066 (6) |
| CONQUEST | Major turning point in English history, stemming from events that unfolded a decade earlier during the reign of Edward the Confessor (6,8) |
| EDWARDVI | King who was the son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour (6,2) |
| IRONSIDE | Nickname of Edmund II, English king who resisted the Danish invasion led by Cnut |
| SISYPHUS | In Greek mythology, a king who was forced to roll a large boulder to the top of a hill, only for it to roll back when he neared the top (8) |
| EDMUNDIRONSIDE | Byname of the English king who was Ethelred the Unready's son (6,8) |
| HENRYI | English king who was the youngest son of William the Conqueror |
| NORMAN | Major turning point in English history, stemming from events that unfolded a decade earlier during the reign of Edward the Confessor (6,8) |
| EDITH | ___ of Wessex (d.1075), Queen of England, wife of Edward the Confessor (5) |
| ISLIP | Village in Oxfordshire that was the birthplace of Edward the Confessor (5) |
| JOAN | Known as the Fair Maid of Kent, the forename of the wife of Edward the Black Prince who was the mother of Richard II (4) |
| LOUISXVI | French king who was charged with treason by his subjects |
| DOWNER | A sad thing, the end of Edward the Confessor? |
| CISSEUS | Thracian king who was father of Theano, the wife of Antenor, and husband of Telecleia, a daughter of King Ilus of Troy, as related in Homer's Iliad (7) |
| ABBEY | Westminster -; Gothic church containing the shrine of St Edward the Confessor that has been the setting of every coronation since 1066(5) |
| EDWARD | - the Confessor; penultimate Anglo-Saxon king of England, son of Ethelred the Unready (6) |
| EADRED | One of the 16 children of Edward the Elder who ruled as king of England from 946 until his death in 955 (6) |
| LEAR | King who was the father of Cordelia |
| PRIAM | Trojan king who was the father of Hector (5) |
