| KITCHENER | Field marshal, 1st Earl of Khartoum (9) |
| CLARENDON | 1st Earl of -; title of Edward Hyde, Lord Chancellor to Charles II, author of The History of the Rebellion (9) |
| ALEXANDER | And 20dn 1st Earl of Buchan, also known as the Wolf of Badenoch (1343-1405) (9,7) |
| MACMILLAN | British Prime Minister, later 1st Earl of Stockton (6,9) |
| ARMSTRONG | Antony _-_, 1st Earl of Snowdon, photographer married to Princess Margaret from 1960 to 1978 (9-5) |
| LEICESTER | 1st Earl of ---, title of 20 Down, created for him in 1564 (9) |
| HOTSPUR | Harry ?, nickname of Sir Henry Percy, son of the 1st Earl of Northumberland |
| AVON | 1st Earl of_, title of Anthony Eden, prime minister of the UK 1955-57 (4) |
| HAROLD | British Prime Minister, later 1st Earl of Stockton (6,9) |
| DUDLEY | Robert ---, the 1st Earl of Leicester, favourite of Elizabeth I (6) |
| PITT | Surname of the 1st Earl of Chatham, (1708-78) |
| ROBERTDUDLEY | The 1st Earl of Leicester, favourite of Elizabeth I (6,6) |
| CECIL | Robert _, 1st Earl of Salisbury, discoverer of the Gunpowder Plot (5) |
| ARMSTRONGJONES | Antony ___-___, 1st Earl of Snowdon (9-5) |
| WILLIAM | 1st Earl of Pembroke; regent of the nine-year-old Henry III (7,7) |
| SNOWDON | 1st Earl of -; depicted by Matthew Goode in The Crown, the title of Princess Margaret's photographer husband Antony Armstrong-Jones (7) |
| STEWART | 1st Earl of Buchan, also known as the Wolf of Badenoch (1343-1405) |
| ANTHONYEDEN | The 1st Earl of Avon and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1955-1957 (7,4) |
| STOCKTON | 1st Earl of -; title of former Conservative prime minister Harold Macmillan (8) |
| SIRHENRY | Soldier, known as Hotspur, son of the 1st Earl of Northumberland (3,5,5) |
