| SNOWDON | Lord -; title of Princess Margaret's society-photographer husband who designed an aviary at London Zoo and coxed the winning Cambridge crew in the 1950 Boat Race (7) |
| MYSTIQUE | Word, similar to the name of Princess Margaret's former hideaway island, for an air or aura of secrecy, fascination or charm shrouding a person or thing (8) |
| BUDGIE | Nickname of a small mimicking parakeet of bush or cage, whose earliest known breeding in Britain was in 1848, in the 13th Earl of Derby's aviary at Knowsley Hall (6) |
| DOORMAN | After the party, Norma designed an opener (7) |
| DEBATED | Drew up or designed an initial document. (7) |
| AIR | Ventilate aviary at regular intervals (3) |
| DARNLEY | Lord -; title of Henry Stuart, husband of Mary, Queen of Scots implicated in the murder of David Rizzio before being murdered himself at Kirk o' Field (7) |
| BYRON | Lord -; title of the poet whose works include Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan, the father of Ada Lovelace, he died from malaria at the age of 36 (5) |
| RAYLEIGH | Lord -; title of the co-discoverer of argon who married Arthur James Balfour's sister Evelyn in 1871, the same year he explained why the sky is blue (8) |
| NUFFIELD | Lord -; title of William Richard Morris, the motor manufacturer and philanthropist who founded Morris Motors Limited (8) |
| LICHFIELD | Earl of ; title of society photographer Thomas Patrick John Anson (9) |
| CECIL | Forename of society photographer Sir Walter Hardy Beaton, who lived at Reddish House in Wiltshire (5) |
| BOTHWELL | 4th Earl of -; title Mary, Queen of Scots husband who was implicated in the murder of Lord Darnley (8) |
| GLENCONNER | Lady Anne -; author of a bestselling memoir who was a maid of honour at the Queen's coronation and Princess Margaret's lady-in-waiting (10) |
| BEATON | Cecil -; society photographer and costume designer who lived at Reddish House in Broad Chalke (6) |
| PRESIDENT | Lord----, title of Scotland's most senior judge (9) |
| PROTECTOR | Lord ---, title borne by Oliver Cromwell as head of state 1653-58 (9) |
| CAGE | A basic lift in the shaft of a colliery; a group of cells in a killer sudoku; a bidon holder on a bike's frame; or, an aviary, coop or hutch (4) |
| OWLERY | Word for an aviary, barn, box, haunt, Hogwartian tower, tree or other place inhabited by a parliament of howlets, jill-hooters, madges, tawnies or related birds of the night (6) |
| EARLOFSNOWDON | Title bestowed on Princess Margaret's husband in 1961 |
