| FRANCIS | Jockey to the Queen and the Queen Mother who went on to write 42 novels including Dead Cert and Whip Hand (7) |
| DICKFRANCIS | British mystery crime writer who was once jockey to the Queen Mother (4,7) |
| WEIR | Peter ___, Australian director of films including Dead Poets Society 1989) and The Way Back 2010) (4) |
| MINTS | Certs and Mentos |
| BASSETT | Cabinet minister in the Lange government who went on to write biographies of several New Zealand Prime Ministers (7) |
| DOWAGER | Comic supporting act: the Queen and the Queen Mum? |
| RIDER | Jockey, to the horse |
| WESLEY | Novelist who wrote Jumping the Queue at the age of 70 and went on to write nine further books including The Camomile Lawn, Harnessing Peacocks and Not That Sort of Girl (6) |
| KERB | The king, the queen and the bishop on the edge (4) |
| EDWARD | Forename of the Earl of Wessex, the youngest of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh's four children (6) |
| BARBOUR | Brand of classic wax jackets and countrywear awarded three royal warrants each in turn from the Duke of Edinburgh, the Queen and the Prince of Wales (7) |
| GRITTAR | Horse that won the 1982 Grand National, ridden by amateur jockey Dick Saunders, who at the age of 48 was the oldest jockey to have won the race (7) |
| PEARL | Said to be the "gem of queens and the queen of gems", a water jewel derived from a grain of sand, depicted in paintings by Johannes Vermeer (5) |
| BOTHERED | The two together, the Queen and the editor, are troubled (8) |
| ERMINE | The Queen and the claim she lays to a fur (6) |
| ERROR | It's wrong to get right between the Queen and the gold (5) |
| GABARDINE | Talk a lot to the queen and make a meal of the material (9) |
| MALTA | An island country where the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh once lived (5) |
| OTHERS | Doctors host the queen - and the rest (6) |
| ROLLER | File past the queen and the poor will benefit from it (6) |
