| RIZZIO | David -, 16thcentury Italian musician and favourite of Mary, Queen of Scots (6) |
| BRONZINO | Agnolo -, 16thcentury painter whose works include Allegory of Happiness (8) |
| GREY | Lady Jane ___; 16thcentury British queen |
| GRESHAM | Thomas -, 16thcentury financier who founded the Royal Exchange in London (7) |
| DUDLEY | Robert, Earl of Leicester and favourite of Elizabeth I of England (6) |
| STUART | Henry -, Lord Darnley; second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots and the father of James I and VI of Scotland (6) |
| LUTIST | Passionate longing to embrace rising Italian musician (6) |
| JAMESI | Son of Mary, Queen of Scots and king of England and Ireland from 1603 until his death in 1625 (5,1) |
| FRASER | Antonia ---, biographer of Mary, Queen of Scots and Marie Antoinette |
| LIMPET | A short distance back and favourite is one hanging on (6) |
| ESSEX | Earl of ___, title of Robert Devereux, English soldier and favourite of Queen Elizabeth I of England |
| GUISE | Mary of ---, queen consort of James V of Scotland and mother of Mary, Queen of Scots (5) |
| MONTEVERDI | Everyman touring Ontario with Italian musician - and another (10) |
| RALEIGH | Name the English explorer, author and favourite of Queen Elizabeth I, Sir Waiter... (7) |
| MARY | --- of Guise, queen consort of James V of Scotland and mother of Mary, Queen of Scots (4) |
| PIERSGAVESTON | English noble and favourite of King Edward II (5,8) |
| DARNLEY | Second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, and father of James I of England |
| DAPONTE | Italian musician who wrote the libretti for Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro (2,5) |
| LEVEN | Loch ___, body of water in Perth and Kinross, Scotland housing a castle that was a place of imprisonment of Mary, Queen of Scots (5) |
| ELIZABETHI | Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn's daughter whose reign as the last Tudor monarch saw the defeat of the Spanish Armada and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (9,1) |
