| CHARLEMAGNE | Another name for Charles 1, Holy Roman Emperor from 800-814 (11) |
| CARISBROOKECASTLE | Isle of Wight C12th fortification where Charles 1 was imprisoned for a year in 1647-8 (11,6) |
| ELIA | Pen name for Charles Lamb |
| CARTA | Sir Edward Coke of Holkham Hall interpreted the famous Magna ... to challenge the royal power of James 1, then Charles 1 (5) |
| ROISSY | Alternative name for Charles de Gaulle Airport |
| CORNWALLIS | Charles, one of the leading British generals in the American War of Independence (10) |
| CONSTANTINE | --- the Great, Roman emperor from 306 to 337 AD (11) |
| OTTO | ... I was Holy Roman Emperor from 962-73 (4) |
| LOTHAIR | --- I was Holy Roman Emperor from 840-55 (7) |
| MATTHIAS | Holy Roman emperor from 1612 |
| LAVA | Word, ironically from "flood, stream, wash, waterfall", for a volcano's fiery river of geothermal molten magma ranging from 800-1,200AdegreesC (4) |
| CHARLESTHEFIRST | Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne, c742-814 (7,3,5) |
| LOUIS | Name shared by eighteen kings of France, the first reigning from 814-40 and the last from 1814-24 (5) |
| ELBA | Italy's third largest island, Napoleon's place of exile from 1 814-1815 (4) |
| HRE | Realm from 800-1806 A.D. |
| MAHATMA | Lover of Dada circles Panama for one holy man (7) |
| PROPHETS | More than one holy man gains, from what we hear |
| NAHUM | Sound surprised, dipping into one holy book or another |
| EGREGIOUS | Outrageous for one holy man to spurn sources of lechery and immorality |
| AACHEN | European cathedral where Charlemagne was buried in 814 (6) |
