| MUNSHI | Persian word for a teacher bestowed as title by Queen Victoria for her attendant Abdul Karim (6) |
| ALBERT | He was married to Queen Victoria for 21 years but died suddenly in 1861. She mourned him the rest of her life. |
| DOCTOR | An old word for a teacher; slang for a ship's cook; a cool sea breeze in a warm country, thought conducive to health; a surgeonfish; a "sawbones" known to the Anglo-Saxons as a leech; brown sherry; or |
| BAZAAR | Persian word for a market, adopted into English to describe a fancy fair, a jumble sale or a large store selling miscellaneous goods, imitative of said souk (6) |
| PARADISE | Persian word for a pleasure ground or royal enclosure that came to mean the garden of Eden; or, heaven (8) |
| COURTIER | Woo current Queen -- and her attendant (8) |
| RAYAH | Ottoman subject close to her attendant |
| SHINYA | Nakano-san, denied a World 250cc title by a fraction of a second to his team-mate Olivier. (6) |
| OTTAWA | The capital of Canada as chosen by Queen Victoria in 1857 (6) |
| MISTER | Term is used as title (6) |
| EPONYM | Character in book, play, same as title (6) |
| CARMEN | Bizet opera based on a novella of the same title by Prosper Merimee |
| SPONGE | Victoria, for one, will make one behave like a parasite (6) |
| PALMER | Rebekah ___ plays Dawn Karim in Shortland Street (6) |
| GENEVA | Vital component supplied to Victoria for gin production (6) |
| ESTEEM | "Self-___" (song title by Nelly or the Offspring) |
| PRAYER | Word in hit titles by Seal, Madonna, and Bon Jovi |
| SKEETE | In 2016, Bradley ____ won the British and Commonwealth welterweight titles by defeating Sam Eggington |
| CITIES | Vancouver and Victoria, for two |
| THEAGE | Start of titles by Auden, Wharton and Paine |
