| TANISTRY | Historical Celtic system of succession by a previously elected member of the family (8) |
| RWANDA | The constitution of this African nation called the 'Land of a Thousand Hills' requires that at least a third of the elected members of its national legislature be women |
| OGHAM | Ancient Celtic system of writing used in Britain and Ireland, consisting of straight lines drawn or carved perpendicular to one another |
| ROBERTCECIL | Elizabeth I's chief minister, who played a major role in her succession by King James (6,5) |
| CLUJ | CFR _, 2025-2026 SuperLiga Romania club managed, in succession, by by Dan Petrescu, Andrea Mandorlini and Daniel Pancu (4) |
| ROUNDHEAD | Succession by top parliamentarian |
| IMPAIRED | Spoilt broadcast by one elected member (8) |
| BEERPUMP | Can tavern device be getting pure sort of elected member? (4-4) |
| CHARCOAL | Pass around a previously cleaner form of carbon (8) |
| UPINARMS | Prepared to protest strongly against the current elected members (2,2,4) |
| RECREANT | Cowardly soldiers interrupting to forswear a previously held belief (8) |
| APPARENT | Heir ___: person first in a line of succession who cannot be displaced by the birth of another heir (8) |
| IMPRISON | Lock up woman concerned with protecting elected member |
| ESTRANGE | Priest rang elected members to antagonise (8) |
| GOPUBLIC | Reveal details of a previously private matter (2,6) |
| BEATRICE | British royal who is tenth in the line of succession to the throne, Princess _ (8) |
| CLEARSUP | Brightens, like a previously cloudy sky: 2 wds. |
| SEQUENCE | Second Queen sorted out church order of succession (8) |
| PALAEONTOLOGIST | One who studies fossils, the profession of Dorothea Bate of the British Natural History Museum who in 1909 discovered in Mallorca evidence of a previously unknown extinct species of animal similar to |
| BERNICERUBENS | Winner of the Booker Prize in 1970 for "The Elected Member" |
