| GOLDWYN | Familiar visiting actress, favourite of royal film producer |
| PICKINGS | Perks from inversion of royal film (8) |
| EASYRIDER | Is ready to edit royal film |
| THELITTLEPRINCE | "Royal" film based on a classic children's story, 1974 |
| LEAR | Royal film role for Welles |
| AGNES | Forename of the "Lady of Beauty" of the Chateau de Loches who was a mistress of Charles VII and first official favourite of a French king (5) |
| ESSEX | Earl of ---, title of Robert Devereux, English soldier and favourite of Queen Elizabeth I of England (5) |
| DUDLEY | Robert, Earl of Leicester and favourite of Elizabeth I of England (6) |
| LEICESTER | Earl of ---, a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I of England who features in Walter Scott's novel Kenilworth (9) |
| JULESETJIM | 1962 film described by Stephen Hawking as his "favourite of all time" |
| ROBERTDUDLEY | England's 1st Earl of Leicester, favourite of Elizabeth I (6,6) |
| EMMA | Some of them matched a favourite of the Janeites (4) |
| PISA | Location of listed building, favourite of tourists (4) |
| RIZZIO | David -, 16thcentury Italian musician and favourite of Mary, Queen of Scots (6) |
| TOFU | Favourite of vegetarians in most of university |
| SHADOWOFADOUBT | 1943 film, Alfred Hitchcock’s favourite of those he directed |
| IKAT | Derived from a Malay word meaning to tie/bind, a traditional method of warp dyeing/weaving in Central Asia that was a favourite of the late Oscar de la Renta (4) |
| WENSLEYDALE | Variety of Yorkshire cheese, a favourite of Nick Park's character Wallace (11) |
| TOMATOCAN | Extremes of ceramic art in Ottoman novel - a favourite of Andy Warhol's (6,3) |
| ROCKING | - horse; toy animal such as any one of the dapple greys made by F. H. Ayres or J. Collinson, a favourite of Queen Victoria and more collectable with a tongue (7) |
