| EYEBROW | '___ a woeful ballad Made to his mistress '___' (AYLI) (7) |
| CHARNEL | Where to find bones - some of old king and some of his mistress? (7) |
| BAGLADY | And his mistress found sleeping rough (3,4) |
| LOUISXV | Known as "le Bien-Aime" (the Beloved), French king who commissioned the construction of the Petit Trianon for his mistress Madame de Pompadour (5,1,1) |
| WIDOWSPIQUE | Fury at a husband leaving his entire estate to his mistress? |
| DONNE | Poet who wrote "To His Mistress Going to Bed" |
| KNELL | Awesome ring given by king to his mistress (5) |
| ALAS | Sounds like a girl with a woeful cry - what a shame (4) |
| LEOVII | Pope said to have died from a heart attack while in bed with his mistress |
| NAPOLEON | French leader who declared power to be his mistress, ... Bonaparte |
| NERO | Which Roman enperor had his mother murdered for criticism of his mistress? (4) |
| SAMSON | A judge of Israel who was betrayed by his mistress Delilah |
| TEARS | 'The big round ___ Cours'd one another down his innocent nose' (AYLI) (5) |
| GUINEAFOWL | Leader in Gerrard has messed up in a woeful game (6,4) |
| WALES | ...the country makes a woeful cry, we hear (5) |
| WEDNESDAYSCHILD | A woeful sort of tradition? (10,5) |
| MISERABLY | In a woeful way is really mean about rating (9) |
| CALAMITOUS | After review, omit casual of a woeful type (10) |
| OVERDONE | Mistress ___, bawd in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure (8) |
| OFEVIL | Angelina Jolie fantasy sequel, Maleficent: Mistress _ (2,4) |
