| IKETURNER | Leader of the Kings of Rhythm |
| IKE | Kings of Rhythm leader Turner |
| PIKETURNER | ... a long-nosed fish and a Kings of Rhythm musician? |
| REIMS | City in the Champagne-Ardenne region; the traditional site of the crowning of the kings of France (5) |
| HUESCA | City in Spain at the foot of the Pyrenees which was the residence of the kings of Aragon until 1118 (6) |
| STURLUSON | Icelandic historian and poet (1179-1241) author of the Younger or Prose Edda and the Heimskringla sagas of the kings of Norway from legendary times until 1177 (6,9) |
| LION | Any one of the "kings of the beasts" formerly kept in the Tower of London's royal menagerie (4) |
| GEOFFREYOFMONMOUTH | Cleric who wrote The History of the Kings of Britain |
| PTOLEMY | Any of the kings of the Macedonian dynasty that ruled Egypt 323-30 B.C. |
| INFANTE | A title given to every one of sons of the kings of Spain (7) |
| GEOFFREY | Cleric from 12 who wrote The History of the Kings of Britain in about 1136 (8) |
| PHARAOH | Title of the kings of ancient Egypt |
| CASHEL | Irish town, traditional seat of the Kings of Munster (6) |
| IRRITANT | Two of the Kings of Ireland, one upset by heartless taunt that's a thorn in someone's side (8) |
| ZEUS | Statue of ___ at Olympia Ancient Greek sculpture of the king of gods that was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World |
| LIONS | Known as the "kings of the jungle", animals living in prides in savannas, grasslands and forests of India and Africa, and the Longleat estate in Wilshire (5) |
| QUOTE | '... I know the kings of England. and I - the fights historical... ' says Major-General Stanley in The Pirates Of Penzance (5) |
| DAUPHIN | Name given to the eldest son of the king of France during the majority of the period 1350-1830 |
| SNORRI | And 35 Across Icelandic historian and poet (1179-1241) author of the Younger or Prose Edda and the Heimskringla sagas of the kings of Norway from legendary times until 1177 (6,9) |
| DWELL | "And alone ... for ever. The kings of the sea." Arnold, The Forsaken Merman (5) |
