| BURGHLEY | Tudor mansion built by the Lord High Treasurer of Elizabeth I; host of an annual three-day event since 1961 (8) |
| SHERBORNE | Market town in Dorset with a Tudor mansion built by Sir Walter Raleigh next to the ruins of a 12th-century castle (9) |
| HADDOHOUSE | 18th c. Aberdeenshire mansion built by William Adam (5,5) |
| EARLMARSHAL | English officer of state ranking between the Lord High Constable and Lord High Admiral (4,7) |
| POOHBAH | From the name of the "Lord High Everything Else" in The Mikado, a person considered pompously self-important (4-3) |
| KOKO | The Lord High Executioner of Titipu in the 1885 Gilbert and Sullivan operetta The Mikado (2-2) |
| ALMONER | The Lord High ___ is a senior priest overseeing charity to the poor |
| ADMIRAL | The head of the Le Strange family of Hunstanton still holds the hereditary title of Lord High .... of the Wash (7) |
| THEMIKADO | "Behold the Lord High Executioner" comic opera |
| GREATSEAL | Course taken by each pupil, held authentically by the Lord Chancellor (5,4) |
| SANMARINO | Small country mansion built around the centre of Kilmarnock (3,6) |
| LUTONHOO | Bedfordshire mansion built for the 3rd Earl of Bute (5,3) |
| BLENHEIM | -- Palace, near Woodstock, a mansion built for the 1st Duke of Marlborough (8) |
| SYON | Tudor mansion in Middlesex that was remodelled by Robert Adam in the 1760s for his patron, Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland (4) |
| JONSON | Dramatist who collaborated with Inigo Jones, his play Every Man in His Humour was performed by the Lord Chamberlain's Men in 1598 with Shakespeare in the cast (6) |
| KNEBWORTHHOUSE | Tudor mansion in Hertfordshire; the former home of Sir Edward Bulwer-lytton (9,5) |
| HERALDRY | In Scotland it's regulated by the Lord Lyon (8) |
| SUPPER | Final evening meal served by the Lord or Leonardo, say (6) |
| ORTEGA | Katherine ___, 1983-89 Treasurer of the United States |
| BURSAR | Who is the treasurer of a college or university (6) |