| LYSES | Causes dissolution of cells |
| FRIERNBARNET | North London suburb whose name recalls that it belonged to the Order of Knights of St John of Jerusalem until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s (6,6) |
| DIVORCE | In spite of the rhyme, Henry VIII achieved his separation from Anne Boleyn by annulment rather than by this form of dissolution of marriage |
| ABBEY | One of the types of buildings that were disbanded during Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries (5) |
| ROBERTASKE | The rebel leader of the Pilgrimage of Grace, a protest against the dissolution of the monasteries |
| CARTMEL | All that is left of this 12th century Cumbrian priory is a church, saved after Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries (7) |
| DISORDERED | In confusion after the dissolution of monasteries? (10) |
| USSR | Dissolution of Dec. 1991 |
| METEORIC | Remarkably rapid dissolution of coterie after months (8) |
| TASTE | Experience the dissolution of state (5) |
| OPENSECRET | Everyone knows it begins with the dissolution of Crete (4,6) |
| LYASE | In biochemistry, an enzyme that catalyses the dissolution of a molecule by forming a double bond between its parts (5) |
| WALTHAMABBEY | Essex church which housed the last religious community to be closed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries (7,5) |
| APERFECTSPY | 1986 John le Carre novel about the mental and moral dissolution of a secret agent called Magnus Pym |
| THOMASCROMWELL | King Henry VIII's chief adviser largely responsible for the dissolution of the monasteries, executed for treason in 1540 (6,8) |
| MONKEYBUSINESS | Underhand dealings in dissolution of the monasteries? (6,8) |
| PILGRIMAGEOFGRACE | A rising in Yorkshire in 1536-37 brought about by enclosures and religious changes culminating in the dissolution of the monasteries (10,2,5) |
| YELTSIN | Which Boris was instrumental in the formal dissolution of the Soviet Union? (7) |
| HENRY | St Benet's Abbey was the only religious house not officially closed by ... VIII during the Dissolution of the Monasteries (5) |
| LYSIN | Substance such as an antibody that causes the dissolution or destruction of cells, especially bacteria (5) |
