| LAMOTTE | Comtesse de ___ ___ was involved in the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, a scandal at the court of Louis XVI in 1785 (2,5) |
| MARIEANTOINETTE | Queen involved in the Affair of the Diamond Necklace |
| CRABAPPLE | Comtesse de Paris, Gorgeous or Sugar Tyme, a garden, orchard, or hedgerow tree in the genus Malus with pectin-rich fruits used to set jelly or crushed for verjuice (4-5) |
| BAGATELLE | Tony Blair fronting a scandal at Central College (9) |
| MANE | Related to Old High German for "necklace", a word for the encolure of a horse or the crest hair of a lion (4) |
| WASTE | One concerned in the affair of a thrash (5) |
| PENDANT | Adornment such as a locket suspended from a necklace; a ceiling light such as a chandelier; or, one of two paintings intended as a pair (7) |
| MUSTANG | Forbidden to foreigners until recently, this former Kingdom of Lo is now a part of Nepal |
| DAUGHTERGATE | Scandal at the family reunion? |
| YOKEL | The country bumpkin is sort of lo' key |
| FUZZ | Feature of lo-fi sound |
| MARIE | Affair of the Diamond Necklace scandal figure Antoinette |
| MATTER | He gets terribly involved in the affair |
| CIA | In 1954, which secretive organisation was involved in the toppling of the government in Guatemala? (1,1,1) |
| THROWER | Horticulturist who was involved in the Dig For Victory campaign and worked in the royal gardens at Windsor before presenting Gardeners' World (7) |
| CASE | The affair of the bag |
| NORTH | Oliver ---, US Marine who was involved in the Iran-Contra affair in the 1980s (5) |
| KEELER | Christine _, model who was involved in the "Profumo affair" in the 1960s (6) |
| NEUMANN | Von -; Inventor of game theory and the MANIAC computer who was involved in the nuclear weapon doctrine MAD (7) |
| KLEE | Painter and teacher who was involved in the activities of Der Blaue Reiter, or the Blue Rider group (4) |
