| ETHELBERT | King of Kent (c 550 -616), the first English king to convert to Christianity (9) |
| MARRANOS | Iberian Jews once forced to convert to Christianity but who still practised secretly (8) |
| MAKEBELIEVE | Pretended to convert to Christianity? |
| ATHELSTAN | King of Wessex and Mercia who eventually became the first English king (9) |
| CLARENDON | 1st Earl of -; title of Edward Hyde, chief advisor to Charles I during the First English Civil War who was Chancellor of Oxford University from 1660-67 (9) |
| MIDDLETON | Thomas ___, Jacobean author of stage plays Women Beware Women and Hengist, King of Kent (9) |
| STERNDALE | Composer and conductor William ____ Bennett led the first English performance of Bach's St Matthew Passion in 1854 |
| TIMHENMAN | The first English tennis player to reach a Wimbledon semi-final after Roger Taylor in 1973 |
| TRANSLATE | Managed during latest broadcast to convert to another language (9) |
| ALJAZEERA | The first English language news channel based in the Middle East, with studios both in London and Doha (2,7) |
| INDIGNIOR | More undeserving, as was Mneschilochus, Pl. Bacchides 616 |
| UNIVERSES | Earth-616 and Earth-688, in Marvel comics |
| CHARLES | The first English king of this name was crowned in 1625 (7) |
| MAGNACARTA | Celebrated document of 1215, subjecting the English king to the rule of law (5,5) |
| MARRANO | Iberian Jewish pseudo-convert to Christianity, victim of The Inquisition (7) |
| JOHNFLORIO | Author of the first English translation of Boccacio, and the first comprehensive Italian-English dictionary (1598) |
| BYRON | John ___, 1st Baron, the leader of Royalist forces against the Parliamentarians in the 1644 Battle of Nantwich during the First English Civil War (5) |
| BRONZE | Lucy, the first English footballer to win the UEFA Women's Player of the Year Award (6) |
| OLAFI | Norwegian king who led a campaign to convert the Vikings to Christianity |
| BEHN | Author of Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave; one of the first English women to earn a living as a profes |
