| FOTHERINGHAY | Where Mary Queen of Scots was executed |
| LEVEN | Loch near Kinross with a now ruined castle where Mary, Queen of Scots was imprisoned in 1567 (5) |
| LOCH | Expanse of water in Scotland with seven islands, on one of which Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned (4,5) |
| AXED | Imposed a duty to be executed as Mary Queen of Scots was (4) |
| COUSIN | Mary Queen of Scots was Elizabeth I's (6) |
| LOCHLEVEN | Castle in which Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned (4,5) |
| ENTOMBED | Mary Queen of Scots was ---- in Westminster Abbey in 1612 (8) |
| ASHBYDELAZOUCH | Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned in this Leicestershire castle in 1569 (5-2-2-5) |
| INN | Accommodation where Mary and Joseph were told there was no room |
| FRENCH | Mary, Queen of Scots, was raised as if she were this nationality, not Scottish |
| TED | Anchorman where Mary worked |
| NASA | Org. where Mary Jackson worked as an engineer |
| GMCORP | Where Mary Barra is CEO |
| CRANMER | The Protestant archbishop of Canterbury who was executed when Mary Tudor became queen (7) |
| ROUEN | Where Joan of Arc was executed in 1431 |
| BOSTON | False bishop in retreat where Mary Baker Eddy founded her church (6) |
| LYMEREGIS | Dorset town where Mary Anning made significant fossil discoveries in the 19th century |
| OFTHE | In 1461, Thomas Roos, Lord of the Manor of Holt, was executed by the Yorkists for supporting the Lancastrians in the War ... Roses (2, 3) |
| THOMASMORE | Lord Chancellor who refused to acknowledge Henry VIII as head of the Church of England and was executed in 1532 (6,4) |
| SIR | British statesman who refused to take the oath of supremacy to Henry VIII as head of the Church and was executed for high treason in 1535 (3,6,4) |
