| HOUSECARL | Before the Norman Conquest, a member of the bodyguard of a Danish or English king or noble (9) |
| YEOMAN | --- of the guard, a member of the bodyguard of the British monarch (6) |
| LEAR | Norman or English king? |
| ALFRED | Notoriously poor cook though a great English king or Batman's loyal butler |
| DEFEAT | A conquest - a feted variety (6) |
| PASTRYBRUSH | A chef/cook's utensil with which to candy or glaze a cake, but also to eggwash dough, glace a bun, honey a ham, oil bread, paint a pie, sugarcoat a Danish or apply a shiny milk-based coating to any sw |
| VIKING | A Danish or Norwegian sea pirate (6) |
| MEERKAT | Turkey, say, visited by English kings or colony dweller (7) |
| SWISS | The -- Guard is the bodyguard of the Pope (5) |
| PRAETORIANGUARD | The bodyguard of the Roman emperors from 27 BC to 312 AD (10,5) |
| AYCKBOURN | Dramatist from Scarborough who wrote The Norman Conquests trilogy of comedic plays based on six characters in one house over a single weekend (9) |
| PARMINDER | Standard golf score achieved by bodyguard of Maternal star Ms Nagra (9) |
| GYMNASIUM | High school, in Danish ... or building for indoor sports, in English |
| RANGATIRA | (N.Z.) Maori chief or noble (9) |
| COURTENAY | Tom, actor who appeared in Alan Ayckbourn's The Norman Conquests (9) |
| NORWICH | East Anglian city that was a major centre of commerce before the Norman Conquest |
| BLUE | Supposed colour of one's blood when of aristocratic descent or noble birth; or, the metaphorical hue of melancholy or sadness, as opposed to the rosy pink or sunny yellow of mirth (4) |
| OLDENGLISH | What do we call the language spoken in Britain before the Norman Conquest? (3,7) |
| DARCY | Part of the 'Salford Hundred' given by William The Conqueror to Roger of Poitou for his role in the Norman Conquest of England; ___ Lever, is now an area of Bolton (5) |
| MANOR | Title, from "man, warrior" and sharing a disputed link with "fool, simpleton", of the lowest rank of British peer, established after the Norman Conquest for a king's tenant-in-chief (5) |
