| GAMBIT | "The Queen's --" |
| MIDDLEGAME | The part of the chess match following the Queen's Gambit Declined or the Ruy Lopez |
| CANALETTO | Venetian view painter whose works including A Regatta on the Grand Canal and The Bacino di San Marco on Ascension Day are currently in an exhibition at the Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace (9) |
| CORGISNOSE | The tip of the muzzle of one of the Queen's dogs (5'1,4) |
| BLACKROD | Truncated title of a senior officer responsible for summoning MPs to listen to the Queen's Speech in the Lords during the state opening of Parliament (5,3) |
| NGAIO | Associated with Maori legends, the New Zealand "mousehole tree" of coastal regions after which one of the "queens of crime" was named (5) |
| BLISS | Composer whose first official duty as Master of the Queen's Music was writing the Processional for the coronation (5) |
| EGYPT | Valley of the Queens setting |
| CHRISTINE | _ and the Queens, French band who have released their debut album 'Chaleur Humaine' (9) |
| YEOMAN | One of the Queen's Body Guard, nicknamed 'Beefeater': ...... of the Guard (6) |
| AGASSE | Animal and landscape artist whose painting The Nubian Giraffe forms part of the Queen's Royal Collection (6) |
| RARITY | It's unusual for the Queen's Trust to exclude the Church (6) |
| EMERALD | Precious gem, 11 of which are set into the gold frame of the Queen's Imperial State Crown (7) |
| CROWNOFFICE | Administrative centre of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court |
| AGGRIEVE | Hurt that is hidden by the Queen's grandad through the years |
| PORTER | Railway worker; the Ruler of the Queen's Navee (G&S) |
| CANOPY | Monitored in a conservation initiative highlighted on The Queen's Green Planet, the uppermost branches of trees forming forests (6) |
| DRAGON | Red -; one of the Queen's Beasts; a creature on the national Welsh flag (6) |
| HERS | The woman's husband, the Queen's (4) |
| LIZARD | Disrespectfully, the Queen's on the side of a road leading to a windswept village (6) |
