| CLEARFORTAKEOFF | Go ahead from the tower |
| NOOK | Doesn't get the go-ahead from the corner (4) |
| OUIJA | Board has go-ahead from Macron and Merkel |
| BLOOD | "Colonel" whose thwarted attempt to steal the crown jewels from the Tower of London is commemorated there with a variety of red velvet chocolate cake (5) |
| PEAL | A sound from the tower |
| WROTE | Was an author taken from the Tower? (5) |
| CONDESCENDING | Prisoner escaping from the Tower of London? |
| PANORAMA | View from the tower, perhaps |
| OLEANDER | Hero's exclamation from the tower plant? |
| ALEAPINTHEDARK | Nasty ankle trip ahead from an action not knowing the outcome (1,4,2,3,4) |
| TOTAL | "You're the Nile; you're the Tower of Pisa; You're the smile on the Mona Lisa; I'm a worthless check |
| BEEFEATERS | Nickname used for the Yeomen of the Guard and the Yeomen Warders at the Tower of London (10) |
| TAROT | The Chariot, the Tower or the Lovers, e.g. |
| ROSY | "Westminster Abbey, the tower of Big Ben; The ... red cheeks of the little children," sang Roger Mil |
| HARDYBOYSSERIES | Mysteries starting with "The Tower Treasure" and "The House on the Cliff" |
| BIGBEN | The clock in the tower of the Houses of Parliament, London (3,3) |
| CROWNJEWELS | Collection of 141 ceremonial treasures in the Tower of London, including the Black Prince's Ruby and the Koh-i-Noor diamond (5,6) |
| OFLONDON | According to legend the British Empire will fall if the ravens leave the Tower ... (2,6) |
| RAVEN | Known collectively as an unkindness, a buzzard-sized bird related to the crow,jackdaw, jay and rook; one of the avian guardians of the Tower Of London (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) |
