| ENTOURAGE | Leaders of empire not trumpeted when we are living as followers? |
| NIPPON | Pin-up picture of national leaders of empire (6) |
| PRESENT | It's a gift for the time we are living in (7) |
| MATERIALWORLD | *What "we are living in," per a Madonna hit song |
| LEAR | Shakespeare character who says "When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools" |
| STUDENTS | Must they not be in form - at any age - as followers of form? (8) |
| LONGBREDY | We need to find a lodger by the beginning of November, when we are moving to a village in Dorset (4,5) |
| RUMI | Persian poet whose epitaph reads "When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men" |
| HEREDITARY | "When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not ___" (Thomas Paine, Common Sense) |
| CRY | We do this when we are unhappy (3) |
| BEDTIMES | Daughter comes in early when we are all thinking of sleep (8) |
| TENANTS | A number of insects are living in them (7) |
| SCREWIN | One way to attach chokes when ship staff are living in sin (5-2) |
| SHADOWS | They are often cast as followers (7) |
| LOYALISTS | Privately employ A-list stars as followers (9) |
| SOCIETY | A body of individuals living as members of a community (7) |
| APART | "It's tearing up my heart when I'm with you / And when we are ___, I feel it, too" (*NSYNC lyrics) |
| CONSULTANT | Adviser continued to want leader of empire restricted (10) |
| ETTUBRUTE | Victim, leader of Empire, falling back, true to form - his Shakespearean cry? (2,2,5) |
| BRAIDE | Slam old leader of Empire - deceitful, considered historically |
