| WITENAGEMOT | In Anglo-Saxon England, an assembly of nobles whose function was to advise the king |
| HEALTHVISITOR | A nurse employed to advise the elderly and parents of young children in their own homes (6,7) |
| EVENTUATE | You dined after function was to happen (9) |
| REEVE | In Anglo-saxon England, an administrator of a shire or burgh (5) |
| FAWKES | His function was violently to secure king's unfortunate end (6) |
| COUNTS | Foreign nobles whose rank corresponds to that of earls (6) |
| EARLS | British nobles whose coronets feature eight silver balls and eight strawberry leaves |
| EARL | Noble whose wife is referred to as countess |
| LIFEPEER | Noble whose title cannot be inherited (4,4) |
| PEER | Member of the House of Lords whose predecessors some 1,000 years ago were drawn together in the form of the Witan to advise Saxon kings (4) |
| DRONES | Male bees in a colony of social bees, whose function is to mate with the queen (6) |
| DRONE | A male bee in a colony of social bees, whose function is to mate with the queen (5) |
| RELIST | Tribute paid to a lord on the death of a tenant in Anglo-Saxon England (6) |
| ATHELING | In Anglo-Saxon England, a prince of any of the royal dynasties |
| SALON | An assembly of guests in a fashionable household from the 17th to the early 20th centuries |
| ECCLESIA | An assembly of citizens in an ancient Greek city-state; or, the congregation of a church (8) |
| CONCLAVE | An assembly of cardinals for the election of a Pope in the Roman Catholic church (8) |
| CEORL | In Anglo-Saxon England, a freeman of the lowest class (5) |
| JUSTICEINEYRE | In medieval England, an itinerant judge riding the circuit (7,2,4) |
| CEORLS | Freemen of the lowest class in Anglo-Saxon England |
