| PEARLY | - king/queen; according to a tradition founded by Henry Croft, a coster dressed in a button-clad costume (6) |
| LONDON | City where Henry Croft founded the tradition of Pearly Kings and Queens (6) |
| PEARLYQUEEN | Cockney woman in a button-covered costume (6,5) |
| PAINTER | Portrait's head isn't the Queen, according to artist (7) |
| CONCERTS | They're performed by a coster in North Carolina |
| SIXPENCE | Silver item placed in a Christmas pudding on Stir-up Sunday as a token of good fortune in a tradition popularised by Prince Albert (8) |
| ANGEL | Item used to top a Christmas tree; a tradition originally popularised by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert (5) |
| ETON | Founded by Henry VI, a boarding school for boys in Berkshire where a crushed meringue pudding, a version of fives and the wall game originated (4) |
| ESCORT | How a coster looks for someone to accompany him (6) |
| SCOOTER | Has two wheels and is used, with love, by a coster (7) |
| OSTRACISE | To banish a coster is dreadful (9) |
| RECTORS | Clergymen have the right to disturb a coster (7) |
| TURKEYS | Gallinaceous snooded gobblers, jakes, jennies, toms and stags forming rafters and customarily eaten at Christmas in a tradition started by Henry VIII and further popularised by Edward VII (7) |
| CARDS | Decorative items sent to convey good wishes at Christmas; a tradition started by Sir Henry Cole (5) |
| GOOSEBERRY | Fruit grown competitively in clubs across the UK in a tradition that originated in the 18th century (10) |
| ETONIAN | Old -; term used to describe an alumnus of the Berkshire school founded by Henry VI in 1440 (7) |
| ALLSOULS | Oxford University college founded by Henry VI of England and Archbishop of Canterbury Henry Chichele in 1438 (3,5) |
| SECTOR | Area into which a coster may wander (6) |
| COASTER | Vessel a coster upset (7) |
| CORSET | Could you get one from a coster? (6) |
