| WOODVILLE | Maiden name of Edward IV's "White Queen" written about by Philippa Gregory who was the mother of 12 children including the Princes in the Tower (9) |
| WARWICK | 16th Earl of -; title of Richard Neville, English nobleman written about by Philippa Gregory in The White Queen and The Kingmaker's Daughter (7) |
| RADIO | 1984 hit single by Queen, written by Roger Taylor (5,2,2) |
| GAGA | 1984 hit single by Queen, written by Roger Taylor (5,2,2) |
| HINES | Gregory who starred with Mikhail Baryshnikov in 1985's "White Nights" |
| ROUEN | Edward IV's birthplace |
| JOCASTA | Scot cut short a holy man with a wife and mother of 12 (7) |
| CORRAL | Queen's written in pink pen (6) |
| JOAN | Known as the Fair Maid of Kent, the forename of the wife of Edward the Black Prince who was the mother of Richard II (4) |
| LEDA | In Greek mythology, a queen of Sparta who was the mother of Helen and Pollux by Zeus, who visited her in the form of a swan |
| ALICE | Princess of Battenberg who was the mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (5) |
| MAIA | One of the seven Pleiades who was the mother of Hermes (4) |
| ANNE | Christian saint who was the mother of the Virgin Mary; feast day, 26 July (4) |
| DANU | Celtic goddess who was the mother of the Tuatha De Danann (4) |
| LIVIA | Wife and counsellor of Augustus who was the mother of Tiberius (5) |
| GAEA | Greek earth goddess who was the mother of the Titans |
| CETO | Sea goddess who was the mother of the Gorgons |
| ASTEROPE | Oceanid in Greek mythology who was the mother of Acragas by Zeus |
| BOLEYN | Who was the mother of Queen Elizabeth I? (4,6) |
| IGRAINE | In Arthurian romances, which wife of Gorlois, Duke of Tintagel, was the mother of Arthur, marrying his father, Uther Pendragon, a day after Gorlois was slain? (7) |
