| IMPERATOR | Title conferred by the Romans on a victorious general (9) |
| LONDINIUM | Settlement built by the Romans on the Thames (9) |
| BIRTHDAYHONOURS | Titles conferred by the Queen each June |
| LAMBETH | -- degree, one conferred by the Archbishop of Canterbury (7) |
| TRIUMPH | A solemn processional entry of a victorious general into ancient Rome, hence a word for a great achievement or conclusive win (7) |
| CHILL | 100 Romans on a hill feel the cold there (5) |
| ACRID | 100 Romans on a raid turn to biting (5) |
| CAMBRIDGE | Duke of ---, title conferred on Prince William on his wedding day in 2011 (9) |
| NIKESHOES | Purchase for a victorious god? |
| TRUMPCARD | A victorious expedient |
| WHOOP | A victorious holler or hurrah, an owl's hoot, an American Indian war cry, a convulsive cough or hack, a bump on a racetrack, a form of hide-and-seek or a Shakespearean interjection "Ho!", all echoing |
| DEGREES | Based on the Latin for "steps", a word for gradations on a scale; or, medieval doctorates or masterships attained in stages, later awards conferred by universities (7) |
| MAHATMA | The title conferred on Gandhi by his adoring followers (7) |
| DOCTOR | Name a person who has received the highest degree conferred by a university (6) |
| ECE | The day before there were a hundred less Romans on the level (3) |
| LEDGE | 50 Romans on the brink or on the shelf (5) |
| PRINCEOFWALES | Title conferred on the monarch's oldest son (6,2,5) |
| EMERITUS | Honorific title conferred on a retired professor or minister (8) |
| DUKEOFEDINBURGH | Title conferred on Prince Edward in 2023 (4,2,9) |
| PATERPATRIAE | Father of the homeland (title conferred on Marius, Cicero and Augustus (5,7) |
