| RYEHOUSEPLOT | A 1683 plan to assassinate Charles II and his brother |
| RYEHOUSE | Building in Hertfordshire that gave its name to a 1683 plot to assassinate King Charles II and his brother James, Duke of York (3,5) |
| PENN | William, signer of a 1683 treaty with the Delaware Indians |
| SPANIEL | Dog with a breed popularised by Charles II and another named after Blenheim Palace, for example; or, alluding to its reputed submissive nature, a word for a fawning person (7) |
| VANDYCK | Artist whose works include Self Portrait with a Sunflower, Lord John Stuart and his Brother, Lord Bernard Stuart and a number of portraits of Charles I as his court painter (3,4) |
| CLARENDON | 1st Earl of -; title of Edward Hyde, adviser to Charles II, and Mary II and Queen Anne's maternal grandfather (9) |
| RASPUTIN | Russian religious mystic perceived to have influenced Tsar Nicholas II and his family (8) |
| LELY | Artist who popularised mezzotint in England and painted the Windsor Beauties and portraits of figures including Charles II and Henry Vane the Younger (4) |
| HENRIETTA | Queen ___ Maria, mother of England's Charles II and James II |
| GALLAGHER | Singer, song-writer and musician with the group Oasis; at one time he had property in Ibiza and he and his brother Liam have enjoyed a number of holidays in Mallorca (9) |
| NOEL | Singer, song-writer and musician with the group Oasis; at one time he had property in Ibiza and he and his brother Liam have enjoyed a number of holidays in Mallorca (4) |
| JACOBITES | Supporters of James II and his descendants |
| STUART | British Royal house whose monarchs included James I, Charles II and Anne |
| BIGWIGS | Powerful folk, those crowning, inter alia, Charles II and Louis XIV (7) |
| PIANO | In Italian this word is an adverb or adjective; it comes from a Late Latin word meaning "smooth." First known use in English dates to 1683. In English the word refers to a musical instrument with stri |
| EDDIEVANHALEN | Guitarist whose rock band was named after him and his brother, and who never learned to read music: 3 wds. |
| UVA | Where R.F.K. and his brother Teddy went to law school |
| VINCENTANDTHEO | 1990 film about a Dutch painter and his brother |
| GRACCHI | Tiberius Sempronius and his brother Gaius Sempronius, Roman tribunes and reformers (7) |
| CHASTENED | Charles and his brother scored ten between them but were told off (9) |
