| PAKENHAM | Kitty, Duchess of Wellington who married the 1st Duke in Dublin in 1806 (8) |
| IRONDUKE | Nickname of General Wellington who defeated Napoleon at The Battle of Waterloo in 1815: 2 wds. |
| BLENHEIM | -- Palace, near Woodstock, a mansion built for the 1st Duke of Marlborough (8) |
| BOOMTOWN | The _ Rats, new wave band formed in Dublin in 1975 (8) |
| SATURDAY | Rusty and Ada married the first day of the weekend (8) |
| NELLGWYN | Royal mistress whose elder son became the first Duke of St Albans (4,4) |
| ALTITUDE | You are given a title - the first duke to reach such heights (8) |
| GUINNESS | Arthur _, Irish brewer who started brewing ales at his St James's Gate Brewery in Dublin in 1759 (8) |
| EASTSIDE | Sounds like E's over junction with Sidney in Dublin, in relation to rest of country (4,4) |
| WESTLIFE | Boy band formed in Dublin in 1998 (8) |
| ROADKILL | Beastly carnage on way out of Dublin in Kildare (4,4) |
| STEWARDS | Attendants in St Edward's ignore first duke (8) |
| IRON | The ____ Duke, nickname of Arthur Wellesley, the 1st Duke of Wellington (4) |
| LIONELSACKVILLE | The first Duke of Dorset who was chosen to inform George I of his accession to the throne in 1714 (6,9) |
| JOHNOFGAUNT | The 1st Duke of Lancaster; son of Edward III and father of Henry IV (4,2,5) |
| ARTHURWELLESLEY | Actual name of the 1st Duke of Wellington (6,9) |
| APSLEY | ___ House, the home of the first Duke of Wellington, at London's Hyde Park Corner (6) |
| MARLBOROUGH | 1st Duke of ---, title of John Churchill, English general who commanded British forces in the War of the Spanish Succession (11) |
| ROLLO | Norse chieftain made the first duke of Normandy in 911 by arrangement with the Frankish king Charles the Simple (5) |
| HOWARD | Family surname of the 1st Duke of Norfolk, inaugurated 1483 (6) |
