| SANDHURST | Common name for the Royal Military College in Camberley, Surrey, whose alumni include Sir Winston Churchill and Princes William and Harry (9) |
| CITADEL | Military college in Charleston, SC, with "The" |
| RSPBCYMRU | Local name for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in Wales (4, 5) |
| EPSOM | Town in Surrey whose racecourse hosts the Derby Stakes and the Oaks (5) |
| SANDOWN | ....... Park, horse racecourse in Surrey whose major races include the Eclipse Stakes (7) |
| SENIORSERVICE | Name for the Royal Navy (6,7) |
| VOICE | The _, ITV talent show whose coaches include Sir Tom Jones (5) |
| STATUE | Examples include Sir John Betjeman's at St Pancras and Harold Wilson's outside Huddersfield station (6) |
| LORDE | Stage name for the Royals singer whose real name is Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor |
| POLARISE | Post includes Sir coming back with a way to organise set of different opinions (8) |
| REDCAP | A name, owing to its scarlet mask, for the thistle-tweaker or goldfinch; a malevolent goblin said to reside in ruined Scottish castles; or, a member of the Royal Military Police (6) |
| KINGS | Constituent college of the University of Cambridge whose alumni include Robert Walpole, Roger Fry, E. M. Forster and Alan Turing (5) |
| EMMANUEL | Cambridge college whose alumni include the former politician Cecil Parkinson (8) |
| READING | A large town in the county where Windsor Castle and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst are located |
| BEDALES | Independent school in Hampshire whose alumni include Lily Allen, Kirstie Allsopp and Alan Jay Lerner (7) |
| CLONGOWESWOOD | - - - College, Irish boys' school whose alumni include Gordon D'Arcy, Rob Kearney and Kevin Spicer (9,4) |
| PETERHOUSECOLLEGE | Academic institution of Cambridge University whose alumni include the actor James Mason (10,7) |
| FINNEY | Actor whose roles include Hercule Poirot in the 1974 film version of Murder on the Orient Express and Sir Winston Churchill in The Gathering Storm (6) |
| EXETER | Oxford college whose alumni include Richard Burton and Roger Bannister |
| STOWE | Buckinghamshire parish within the Aylesbury Vale, site of a school whose alumni include Christopher Robin Milne, Richard Branson and Cressida Bonas (5) |
