| JEWELS | Crown -; Queen's 23,578 gemstones in the Tower of London guarded by sentries, yeoman warders and ravens (6) |
| PASTOR | Any one of the Gemstones, in "The Righteous Gemstones" |
| TOWEROFLONDON | Fortress holding the 23,578 gemstones of the Crown Jewels under armed guard of the Yeomen Warders (5,2,6) |
| TURNKEY | Warder and the last of the men tucked into Thanksgiving meal (7) |
| BEZELS | Settings for precious gemstones in jewellery; or, grooved rings for holding clock/watch glasses in position (6) |
| CROWNJEWELS | Regalia including 23,578 gemstones |
| SCREWDRIVER | Warder and chauffeur take turns to tighten things up (11) |
| CHRYSOBERYL | Greenish-yellow mineral used as a gemstone in the form of cat's eye (11) |
| EYESORE | Carbuncle, gemstone in the end certainly something from a mine |
| AMETHYST | Gemstone, in the morning, they mislaid on street |
| BEEFEATER | Yeoman Warder who wears an elaborate uniform and guards the crown jewels in the Tower of London |
| LION | Any one of the "kings of the beasts" formerly kept in the Tower of London's royal menagerie (4) |
| BEEFEATERGIN | Alcoholic drink named after the Tower of London's Yeoman Warders |
| BEEFEATERS | Nickname used for the Yeomen of the Guard and the Yeomen Warders at the Tower of London (10) |
| BIGBEN | The clock in the tower of the Houses of Parliament, London (3,3) |
| THEYEOMENOFTHEGUARD | Gilbert and Sullivan opera set in the Tower of London in the 16th century (3,6,2,3,5) |
| WYATT | Poet who popularised the sonnet at the court of Henry VIII; Anne Boleyn's rumoured lover, he spent a month in the Tower of London until her execution (5) |
| WALPOLE | Imprisoned in the Tower of London for some six months, a Kit-Cat Club member regarded as Britain's first prime minister, for whom Houghton Hall was built in the 1700s and whose son coined "serendipity |
| RALEIGH | Privateer who led two expeditions in search of the fabled lost city of gold, El Dorado, and fathered three sons with Elizabeth I's lady-in-waiting Bess Throckmorton, including Carew, conceived in the |
| EDWARDV | Which king of England was imprisoned with his brother in the Tower of London and never seen again? (6,1) |
