| BOTHWELL | 4th Earl of -; title Mary, Queen of Scots husband who was implicated in the murder of Lord Darnley (8) |
| STUART | Family name of Mary, Queen of Scots whose husband Lord Darnley was implicated in the murder of her private secretary David Rizzio (6) |
| ORRERY | 4th Earl of -; title of Charles Boyle, after whom a clockwork model of the solar system was named (6 |
| TEMPLENEWSAM | Tudor-Jacobean mansion in Yorkshire, birthplace of Lord Darnley in 1545 (6,6) |
| DARNLEY | Lord -; title of Henry Stuart, husband of Mary, Queen of Scots implicated in the murder of David Rizzio before being murdered himself at Kirk o' Field (7) |
| KENNEDY | The Christchurch Star was implicated in conspiracy theories after the assassination of John F ... |
| 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) |
| JACKLOWDEN | Actor who played Lord Darnley in 'Mary Queen of Scots' (2018) (4,6) |
| HERBERT | Philip ---, 4th Earl of Pembroke, one of the 'incomparable pair of brethren' to whom Shakespeare's First Folio was dedicated (7) |
| SALLYST | And 38D She was in jail for her part in the murder of George Kiss in Hollyoaks (5,2,6) |
| CLAIRE | See 32A. She was in jail for her part in the murder of George Kiss in Hollyoaks (5,2,6) |
| CLARENDON | 1st Earl of -; title of Edward Hyde, Lord Chancellor to Charles II, author of The History of the Rebellion (9) |
| DEL | Cousin of Lydia Dingle's husband, who was played by Hayley Tamaddon in Emmerdale (3) |
| ABERDEEN | George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of ---, prime minister of the UK 1852-55 (8) |
| PADDYKIRK | Pre-marriage name of Dales vet who recently confessed his part in the murder of Ray Walters to save his dad from a life sentence (5,4) |
| PETERSHAM | Named after a courtesy title of Charles Stanhope, 4th Earl of Harrington, sawtooth-edged grosgrain-like rayon ribbon, used for hatbands or binding (9) |
| ANTE | My first husband, who was from Neath, was crazy -- he put everything we had up as a stake in a poker game (4) |
| WASTER | My first husband, who was from Ashwater, managed to fritter away three grand -- he's the sort of person that will never amount to anything (6) |
| ESSEX | Earl of ---, title of Robert Devereux, English soldier and favourite of Queen Elizabeth I of England (5) |
| ELGIN | 7th Earl of -; title of Thomas Bruce who removed a series of marble artefacts from the Parthenon (5) |
