| CLARENDON | 1st Earl of -; title of Edward Hyde, chief advisor to Charles I during the First English Civil War who was Chancellor of Oxford University from 1660-67 (9) |
| BYRON | John ___, 1st Baron, the leader of Royalist forces against the Parliamentarians in the 1644 Battle of Nantwich during the First English Civil War (5) |
| PEACE | "___ is dangerous; not to all folk, but certainly to those whose power and standard of living depend on war": W.E.B. Du Bois |
| WILLIAMCECIL | Statesman and chief advisor to Elizabeth I; 1st Baron Burghley (7,5) |
| ROUNDHEAD | A supporter of Parliament against Charles I during the English Civil War (9) |
| CAVALIER | Word for a Royalist supporter of Charles I during the English Civil War (8) |
| CAVALIERS | Supporters of Charles I during the English Civil War (9) |
| CROMWELL | Oliver _, 17th-century statesman who led armies against Charles I during the English Civil War (8) |
| STOWONTHEWOLD | Gloucestershire town, site of the final battle of the first English Civil War (4-2-3-4) |
| 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) |
| NASEBY | Decisive battle of the first English Civil War |
| EDGEHILL | Battle of the First English Civil War at Warwickshire in 1642 (8) |
| BATTLEOFNASEBY | Engagement which effectively ended the first English Civil War |
| LANSDOWNE | 1643 battle near Bath in the First English Civil War |
| ESSEX | Earl of ---, title of Robert Devereux, English soldier and favourite of Queen Elizabeth I of England (5) |
| ORRERY | 4th Earl of -; title of Charles Boyle, after whom a clockwork model of the solar system was named (6 |
| ROCHESTER | 2nd Earl of -; title of John Wilmot, poet at the court of Charles II (9) |
| SOVEREIGN | English gold coin minted from the time of Henry VII to Charles I, and revived in 1816 (9) |
| STOCKTON | 1st Earl of -; title of former Conservative prime minister Harold Macmillan (8) |
| LICHFIELD | 5th Earl of -; title of society photographer Patrick Anson, the Queen's first cousin once removed remembered for his many royal portraits (9) |
