| BABINGTON | Anthony ___, nobleman convicted of conspiring with Mary, Queen of Scots, in a plot to assassinate Elizabeth I (9) |
| RIDOLFI | --- plot, 1571 plot to assassinate Elizabeth I and replace her with Mary, Queen of Scots (7) |
| RAE | Carruth of the Carolina Panthers who was convicted of conspiring to commit murder |
| ABETTED | Collaborated in a plot to screen European races (7) |
| INTRIGUER | One involved in a plot to ruin Tiger fans (9) |
| CONSIST | Are made up of Scots in disarray (7) |
| COVENANT | National ----, signed by thousands of Scots in 1638 (8) |
| NAE | Scot's "In a pig's eye!" |
| CAMERON | This Scot's in a tricky romance (7) |
| THEJACKAL | The Day of___ _: Frederick Forsyth novel about a plot to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle (3,6) |
| REDRABBIT | Tom Clancy novel about a plot to assassinate Pope John Paul II (3,6) |
| VALKYRIE | 2008 Tom Cruise movie about a plot to assassinate Hitler |
| MACBETH | Beth supports Scot in a Shakespearean role (7) |
| PIANO | Instrument of Scot in post office (5) |
| ORSINO | Duke ___, nobleman in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (6) |
| BARON | The Bloody ___ (nobleman ghost who haunts Slytherin House) |
| WALSINGHAM | Spymaster who uncovered the Babington Plot to assassinate Elizabeth I and employed intelligence workers to decode Mary, Queen of Scots' cipher (10) |
| 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) |
| GREY | Lady Jane -; depicted in a play by Nicholas Rowe and a painting by Paul Delaroche, a queen for nine days before she was beheaded and replaced with Mary Tudor (4) |
| SHELLEY | Author of poems including To a Skylark and The Cloud who eloped with Mary Wollstonecraft's daughter and later drowned aged |
