| YOUNGPRETENDER | Byname of Bonnie Prince Charlie, Stuart claimant to the throne (5,9) |
| PRIEST | Charlie --, Stuart Pawson's fictional detective (6) |
| SKYEBOATSONG | Song recalling the escape of Bonnie Prince Charlie after his defeat at the Battle of Culloden in 1746 |
| FLORA | Name, shared with an anthology, book on blooms or botany, of a Jacobite heroine whose rescuing boatlift of Bonnie Prince Charlie after his defeat at Culloden is recounted in The Skye Boat Song (5) |
| OLDPRETENDER | Son of James II as claimant to the throne |
| PRETENDER | Young -, nickname of Bonnie Prince Charlie (9) |
| JACOBITE | Judge - one bringing in death sentences for follower of Bonnie Prince Charlie (8) |
| RICHARDOFYORK | Plantagenet claimant to the throne (7,2,4) |
| BONNIEPRINCECHARLIE | Claimant to the British throne associated with the Isle of Skye (6,6,7) |
| HEIR | Claimant to the throne |
| PRETENDERS | Pseudo-claimants to the throne |
| MACDONALD | Flora ---, facilitator of Bonnie Prince Charlie’s escape after the Battle of Culloden |
| GONDOLIER | One of a titled brotherhood, claimant to throne in the house of Savoy? |
| SKYE | Hebridean island immortalised in a song describing the escape of the young pretender Charles Edward Stuart, or Bonnie Prince Charlie (4) |
| DRAMBUIE | Bonnie Prince Charlie is said to have given the recipe for which liqueur to those who gave him refuge in 1746? (8) |
| BENBECULA | Outer Hebridean island from which Bonnie Prince Charlie headed "over the sea to Skye" |
| PERKINWARBECK | Claimant to throne has advantage during fighting over stream |
| FIFTH | One of various claimants to add to fabulous quartet? (5,6) |
| BEATLE | One of various claimants to add to fabulous quartet? (5,6) |
| STUART | Bonnie Prince Charlie belonged to this Scottish royal family |
