| BEATON | Mary ----, lady-in-waiting to Mary Queen of Scots (6) |
| NEGLECT | Ignore name in waiting to install leader of government |
| RIZZIO | David, personal secretary to Mary Queen of Scots who was assassinated in 1566 (6) |
| MARMALADE | Name, mistakenly attributed to "Mary is ill", in allusion to Mary Queen of Scots's citrus conserve when she was convalescing in bed, of an originally sweet "honey apple" quince spread, now a Seville o |
| HEROIC | Descriptive of Leander's nightly swims, or of the lady-in-waiting? (6) |
| LANGSIDE | Site of the last battle of forces loyal to Mary Queen of Scots before her exile to England (8) |
| MOTHERINLAW | Relation of Catherine de Medici to Mary, Queen of Scots (6-2-3) |
| WITHER | Like many a lady-in-waiting in decline |
| LURKER | Temptation grips king, queen and lady-in-waiting? |
| GEORGEBUCHANAN | Killearn-born tutor to Mary, Queen of Scots and James VI (6,8) |
| EMILIA | Lady-in-waiting in "Othello" |
| DARNLEY | Husband to Mary Queen of Scots |
| PHILIP | King of Spain, married to Mary I of England in 1554 (6) |
| BADEGG | Nasty fellow capable of floating in water according to Mary Berry (3,3) |
| VIRGIN | Title given to Mary, mother of Jesus (6) |
| DEIGNS | Condescends to Mary and Frederik in speech (6) |
| GRIMES | Opera, dirty music fed to Mary or Martin? (5,6) |
| BOMBAY | Star of _____, 182-carat sapphire given to Mary Pickford by Douglas Fairbanks |
| MOTHER | Mary Wollstonecraft, to Mary Shelley |
| STOCKS | Gail Loman confided about her problems with this Dales local to Mary and Bob (6) |
