| ICET | Co-star of Richard Belzer |
| AVA | Co-star of Richard in "The Night of the Iguana" |
| UFOS | Richard Belzer book, ___, JFK, and Elvis |
| GETONTHE | 1996 Spike Lee film drama starring Richard Belzer and Andre Braugher (3,2,3,3) |
| EZRA | Belzer regularly read a book from the Old Testament (4) |
| WARWICK | 16th Earl of -; title of Richard Neville the "Kingmaker", a Yorkist turned Lancastrian during the Wars of the Roses who was killed at the Battle of Barnet (7) |
| BOSWORTH | Site in England of a battle of the Wars of the Roses resulting in the death of Richard III (8) |
| JOAN | Known as the Fair Maid of Kent, the forename of the wife of Edward the Black Prince who was the mother of Richard II (4) |
| ELEANOR | Duchess of Aquitaine who was queen of France, then queen of England, mother of Richard the Lionheart (7) |
| THELIONHEART | Richard --- ---, nickname of Richard I of England (3,9) |
| STEED | Part of the Palace of Westminster's statue of Richard the Lionheart |
| PLANTAGENET | A line of English kings, ruling from the ascent of Henry II to the death of Richard III (11) |
| AQUITAINE | Eleanor of ___ , wife of King Henry II and mother of Richard the Lionheart (9) |
| JARED | _____ Harris: son of Richard and star of Chernobyl and Mad Men. (5) |
| OSMAN | Surname of Richard, Pointless co-presenter (5) |
| KINGMAKER | Sobriquet of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick |
| LIONHEART | Nickname of Richard I of England (4,5) |
| OUR | 'Now is the winter of ___ discontent' (opening line of 'Richard III') |
| DOUGLASREEMAN | Author of great sea novels, a.k.a. Alexander Kent, creator of Richard Bolitho |
| ULTIMA | 1929 volume; third part of Henry Handel Richardson novel The Fortunes of Richard Mahony (6,5) |
