| COURTCARD | Jack or a queen, for instance (5,4) |
| ERA | Reign of a queen, for instance |
| GREY | Lady Jane -; depicted in a play by Nicholas Rowe and a painting by Paul Delaroche, a queen for nine days before she was beheaded and replaced with Mary Tudor (4) |
| STICKED | An adhesive label; a dogged person; a hanger-on; a perplexing poser; a piano jack; or, a prickle or burr that clings to one's clothing (7) |
| UNION | From "one", a word for coalition, fusion, harmony or wedlock; a national flag or jack; or, a device, emblematic of alliance, on aforesaid colours (5) |
| CADE | A barrel; a juniper tree; rebel, Jack; or, a pet lamb, reared by hand (4) |
| DIBS | Name of a game played with pebbles or knuckle-bones, hence a word for money; jacks; or, a claim of rights (4) |
| CONSORT | From the Latin for "sharer, partner", a king's wife or a queen's husband; a ship accompanying another; or, a family of instruments, such as viols, playing together (7) |
| CARD | Maybe a king or a queen breaks a record (4) |
| SERTA | Name for a king or a queen? |
| DRAWPOKER | "Jacks or better" is a form of it |
| ANT | Insect that might be a soldier or a queen |
| BEE | Insect that might be a drone or a queen |
| CHESSMAN | A pawn in the mating game in The Queen, for instance (8) |
| ANTHEM | National ___, God Save the Queen, for instance (6) |
| PENTAMETER | "Shut up about domesticated queen", for instance (10) |
| REGALE | Lavishly entertain queen, for instance, with beer |
| RACES | A Day At The _, Marx Brothers film, or a Queen album (5) |
| ENNA | Sicilian city, or a queen backwards |
| OBAMA | POTUS 44 or a queen on "Drag Race Italia" |
