| BONNIEPRINCECHARLIE | The Young Pretender |
| CHARLIE | Bonnie Prince -; a nickname of the Young Pretender immortalised in the Skye Boat Song who led the Jacobite uprising but was defeated at the Battle of Culloden (7) |
| SKYE | Hebridean island immortalised in a song describing the escape of the young pretender Charles Edward Stuart, or Bonnie Prince Charlie (4) |
| PRINCE | The Young Pretender (6,6,7) |
| BONNIE | The Young Pretender (6,6,7) |
| JACOBITEREBELLION | Unsuccessful uprising led by the Young Pretender, eventually crushed at Culloden in 1746 (8,9) |
| ERISKAY | Outer Hebridean island between Barra and South Uist where the Young Pretender or Bonnie Prince Charlie landed in 1745 (7) |
| FLORAMACDONALD | Jacobite heroine who helped the Young Pretender escape in 1745 (5,9) |
| FLORA | Heroine who conducted the Young Pretender to safety in Skye (5,9) |
| MACDONALD | Heroine who conducted the Young Pretender to safety in Skye (5,9) |
| CHEVALIER | A gallant young pretender, say (9) |
| WARBECK | Perkin ---, 15th Century pretender to the English throne who claimed to be one of the Princes in the Tower (7) |
| PLATTERS | "The Great Pretender" group, with "The" |
| PERKIN | Pretender to the English throne, who claimed to be Richard, Duke of York, supposed to have been murdered in the Tower (6,7) |
| SIMNEL | Lambert _, pretender to the throne of England who claimed to be the Earl of Warwick (6) |
| MORSE | Jarod ___: "The Pretender" |
| JAROD | Lead character on TV's "The Pretender" |
| UPSTART | Unexpectedly fresh version of The Great Pretender? |
| BROWNE | "The Pretender" singer Jackson |
| CHARLATANGOLFER | Pretender on the links? |
