| PARLIAMENTARIAN | Enemy of royalist houses heretic (15) |
| BYRON | John ___, 1st Baron, the leader of Royalist forces against the Parliamentarians in the 1644 Battle of Nantwich during the First English Civil War (5) |
| PITCHFORKING | Persuasive speech of royalist working on a farm? (12) |
| RETAINER | Message of royalist who works in household maybe? |
| SOLITARY | Single sort of royalist |
| THOMASPRIDE | New Model Army officer who brought about the expulsion of Royalist and Presbyterian MPs from Parliament in 1648 (6,5) |
| THRONE | Supporter of royalists (6) |
| ISLAY | Centre of royalists could be a Hebridean island (5) |
| TRADITIONALISTS | Royalists use tradition to replace Roy with conservatives (15) |
| CAVALIER | Based of the Latin for "horse", a knight or armed horseman; a gallant or courtly gentleman acting as a lady's escort; a Royalist supporter of Charles I; or, a breed of spaniel (8) |
| ANCHUSA | Broad genus of the borage family of which 'Loddon Royalist' is a type (7) |
| ROUNDHEAD | Anti-Royalist has bit of a fight getting capital (9) |
| TIBBERMORE | Site in Perthshire of a Royalist victory over the Covenanters (1644) |
| ALFORD | Small town in the north-east (pop about 2,000), the site of a Royalist victory in 1645 (6) |
| NASEBY | Site of a decisive Royalist defeat in the English Civil War on 14 June 1645 (6) |
| IRIS | Arguably, the fleur-de-lis of the French royalist standard (4) |
| RUPERT | English/German prince who was commander of the Royalist cavalry during the English Civil War (6) |
| NEWBURY | Berkshire market town that was the scene of both Parliamentarian and Royalist victories in the Civil War (7) |
| EDGEHILL | Pitched battle of the English Civil War fought between some 15,000 Parliamentarians and 14,000 Royalists on October 23, 1642 (8) |
| SOLIDARITY | Group feeling royalist out to conceal documents (10) |
