| DIEFLEDERMAUS | "Noted drama as Princess Elizabeth initially escaped with the Queen Mother" (the Guardian) (3,10) |
| MALTA | Country with a national flag bearing the George Cross, where the Queen (as Princess Elizabeth) and the Duke of Edinburgh lived for two years (5) |
| VALLETTA | Maltese capital, site of the Queen's former residence as Princess Elizabeth, Villa Guardamangia (8) |
| ENEMY | Why soldiers initially escaped round other side (like 16) (5) |
| NEARER | Comparatively close driver initially escaped rear end crash (6) |
| SAYWEREINLOVE | The song Princess Elizabeth listened to during her courtship days, "Don't sigh and gaze at me; Your |
| ORIENTEXPRESS | Murder on the ___ 2017 mystery thriller film starring Judi Dench as Princess Dragomiroff: 2 wds. |
| ANGELABASSETT | Actress who plays the queen mother of Wakanda in "Black Panther": 2 wds. |
| GOODSAMARITAN | Drama as it unfolds encapsulated by thug, Biblical character |
| MOSES | Little Amos escaped with the boy in the bulrushes (5) |
| JAIL | Secure facility from which Rob Donovan escaped, with the help of a warden in Corrie (4) |
| SYMS | Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in 2006 film The Queen, Sylvia - (4) |
| OLDFRUIT | "Tinkety tonk ____, and down with the Nazis" (Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother in a wartime letter sign-off) |
| WESTMINSTER | This London abbey was the scene for the wedding of the Prince Philip and Princess Elizabeth |
| ESCAPADE | Escaped with the aid of a wild prank (8) |
| LEEKS | They escaped with the vegetables? (5) |
| ELLESMERE | The lake where Elizabeth initially could trade up the Maori club (9) |
| GLAMIS | Small village in Angus, Scotland, the location of the castle in which Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother grew up (6) |
| LOTTA | The Star's columnist Ms. Dempsey who would astonish then-Princess Elizabeth (on a tour of Canada with Prince Philip in 1951) by leaping fully clothed into the Ottawa River from a royal tour boat to ge |
| TREETOPS | Hotel in Aberdare National Park, Kenya, where Princess Elizabeth stayed with the Duke of Edinburgh i |
