| THOMASPERCY | Constable of Alnwick Castle, conspirator In the Gun powder Plot of 1605 (6,5) |
| FAWKES | Guy - - -, conspirator in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 (6) |
| CATESBY | Surname of the leader of the group of Catholics who planned the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 (7) |
| CASCA | One of the conspirators in the assassination of Jullius Caesar in the Shakespeare play (5) |
| YORK | Birth city of the Catholic revolutionary Guy Fawkes who was hanged for his involvement in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 (4) |
| GUYFAWKES | Member of a group of Roman Catholics who planned the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 (3,6) |
| ADAM | Biblical figure in a fresco by Michelangelo inspired by a cameo that now forms part of the Beverley Collection at Alnwick Castle (4) |
| LONGINUS | Gaius Cassius ---, leading conspirator in the plot to kill Julius Caesar (8) |
| GUY | ___ Fawkes: conspirator in gun- powder lot? |
| KREMLIN | Rock group recently disbanded: endless row after finale in Alnwick Castle (7) |
| CASSIUS | Conspirator in the murder of Julius Caesar |
| BRUTUS | Conspirator in the murder of Julius Caesar |
| PLUNKETT | Oliver ---, 17th-Century Irish Roman Catholic churchman and martyr executed as a supposed conspirator in the Popish Plot (8) |
| LUNGPOWER | High decibel speaking like large explosion of gun powder splitting tip of drum (4,5) |
| DOUR | A grim "Turn in the gun" is the comeback (4) |
| RIFFLE | Thumb through the book to find foreign leader in the gun (6) |
| ICING | Chilling being in charge west of meadow in Alnwick, eg |
| GUNPOWDER | Explosive mixture - plot of 1605 (9) |
| SIRIAINLIVINGSTONE | Who announced their retirement as Chief Constable of Police Scotland in February this year (3,4,11) |
| STOLEN | See turning in the gun that was misappropriated (6) |
