| THOMASMORE | Lord Chancellor who opposed Henry VIII's marriage to Anne Boelyn and was executed in 1532 (6,4) |
| MORE | Author of Utopia imprisoned for opposing Henry VIII's marriage to Anne Boleyn and later beheaded (4) |
| CLEMENT | _ VII, pope who refused to annul Henry VIII'S marriage to Catherine of Aragon (7) |
| CRANMER | Archbishop of Canterbury who declared Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon void (7) |
| PERU | Which country was conquered by the Spanish conquistador Pizzaro in 1532? (4) |
| THEPRINCE | Niccolo Machiavelli book posthumously published in 1532 |
| MARYSTUART | Scottish queen who fled to England and was executed 1587 (4,6) |
| HELMUTKOHL | Chancellor who oversaw the reunification of East and West Germany (6,4) |
| SIR | British statesman who refused to take the oath of supremacy to Henry VIII as head of the Church and was executed for high treason in 1535 (3,6,4) |
| THOMAS | British statesman who refused to take the oath of supremacy to Henry VIII as head of the Church and was executed for high treason in 1535 (3,6,4) |
| BACON | James I's Lord Chancellor who wrote Novum Organum and a series of essays that consider subjects including truth, marriage, travel, friendship, health and ambition (5) |
| WOLSEY | The former Lord Chancellor who died at Leicester, on his way to London to answer charges of treason (6) |
| LAUD | Which Archbishop of Canterbury opposed Puritanism and was executed for treason in 1645? (4) |
| BRANDT | Willy ****** , German chancellor who was the first to make a state visit to Israel (6) |
| SADDAMHUSSEIN | President of Iraq captured by US forces in 2003 who was executed in 2006 (6,7) |
| BYNG | Admiral John --, English naval officer who was executed in 1757 after failing to relieve Minorca (4) |
| CHELSEA | Area of London once home to Anne of Cleves in a former royal manor and also to a bakery on its periphery noted for the currant buns that bear its name today (7) |
| PANNIER | Give it to Anne to rip or put the provisions in it (7) |
| FOTHERINGHAY | ___ Castle, fortress in Northamptonshire where Mary, Queen of Scots was executed in 1587 (12) |
| NEY | One of Napoleon's marshals, who fought at Waterloo. He was executed in December 1815 (3) |