| CLARENDON | 1st Earl of -; title of Edward Hyde, a chief adviser to Charles II (9) |
| ROCHESTER | 2nd Earl of -; title of John Wilmot, poet at the court of Charles II (9) |
| LICHFIELD | Earl of ; title of society photographer Thomas Patrick John Anson (9) |
| BEDHOPPER | Edward Hyde principally taken in by dancer - a promiscuous one |
| LEICESTER | 1st Earl of ---, title of 20 Down, created for him in 1564 (9) |
| STOCKTON | 1st Earl of -; title of former Conservative prime minister Harold Macmillan (8) |
| MORDECAI | Cousin and adoptive father of Esther who became chief adviser to King Ahasuerus (Esther 2-9) (8) |
| ORRERY | 4th Earl of -; title of Charles Boyle, after whom a clockwork model of the solar system was named (6 |
| WARWICK | 16th Earl of -; title of Richard Neville the "Kingmaker", a Yorkist turned Lancastrian during the Wars of the Roses who was killed at the Battle of Barnet (7) |
| ESSEX | Earl of ---, title of Robert Devereux, a favourite of Elizabeth I (5) |
| ELGIN | 7th Earl of -; title of Thomas Bruce who removed a series of marble artefacts from the Parthenon (5) |
| COLBERT | French comptroller-general of finances 1661-83; chief adviser to Louis XIV (7) |
| SNOWDON | Earl of -; title of Antony ArmstrongJones, photographer and late former husband of Princess Margaret (7) |
| WOLSEY | Orchestrator of the Field of the Cloth of Gold and inventor of the combination of strawberries and cream who was Henry VIII's chief adviser, often called "alter rex" (6) |
| ABERDEEN | Earl of -; title of George Hamilton Gordon, UK prime minister from 1852-55 (8) |
| GRANTHAM | Earl of -; title of Downton Abbey character Robert Crawley (8) |
| MONCK | Originally Cromwell's commander-in-chief in Scotland, the Devon-born soldier who later became a key figure in negotiating the restoration of the monarchy to Charles II in 1660 (5) |
| LAUD | William ___, Archbishop of Canterbury and religious adviser to Charles I |
| CUMMINGS | Dominic ___, chief adviser to the prime minister (8) |
| DRJEKYLL | Alter ego of Mr Edward Hyde in a novella by Robert Louis Stevenson (2,6) |
