| THEMERRYMONARCH | Cheerful character on the throne, in the past (3,5,7) |
| SMILER | Second runner's cheerful character (6) |
| PEASANT | Cheerful characters left out by one tilling the land in the past (7) |
| WINSOME | Cheerful characters might be able to get a few more (7) |
| LIONELSACKVILLE | The first Duke of Dorset who was chosen to inform George I of his accession to the throne in 1714 (6,9) |
| WILLIAMOFORANGE | Monarch who acceded to the English throne in 1689 with his wife Mary II (7,2,6) |
| SABU | In 1940 he played the engaging scamp who helped restore Ahmed to his lost throne in The Thief Of Bag |
| BRAN | Game of Thrones character who was chosen for the Iron Throne in the final episode |
| LONGAGO | Aging, heartless phoney occupying throne in the distant past (4,3) |
| GONDOLIER | One of a titled brotherhood, claimant to throne in the house of Savoy? |
| EGBERT | King of the West Saxons, succeeding to the throne in 802 (6) |
| SALICLAW | Barman embraces the greatest regulation for keeping women off the throne in old France (5,3) |
| CANUTE | ____ The Great, Danish king of England who acceded to the throne in 1016 AD (6) |
| TREETOPS | Kenyan hotel in which Elizabeth II was staying when she acceded to the throne in 1952 (8) |
| WALLISSIMPSON | King Edward VIII abdicated the throne in order to marry whom? (6,7) |
| REIGN | Occupy the throne in bad conditions, we hear (5) |
| TORN | He is off the throne in Split (4) |
| IRON | The throne in Game of Thrones |
| CHARLES | Next heir to the throne in Great Britain (7) |
| ANNE | Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland who ascended the throne In 1702 (4) |
