| COLE | Merry monarch of rhyme |
| OLDKINGCOLE | The merry monarch of nursery rhyme |
| KINGCOLE | "Old" monarch of rhyme |
| VILLIERS | From Lady Castlemaine to 1st Duchess of Cleveland, this English noblewoman was Charles II's courtesan, mistress, "uncrowned queen" and "Windsor beauty", who served as the muse of said "Merry Monarch's |
| TIGHTER | Merry monarch becomes meaner |
| CAMISOLE | Merry monarch entertaining friends abroad in nightwear |
| HARMONICA | Merry monarch - one with a musical instrument (9) |
| COLLEGE | Merry monarch holds stage at school (7) |
| COLESLAW | Merry monarch's order for salad? (8) |
| ANCHORMEN | Those running last once regularly backed by Merry Monarch (9) |
| CREOLE | Merry monarch about to be introduced to spicy cookery |
| BELLYDANCER | How Nell raced by, wiggling her abdomen perhaps for The Merry Monarch (5-6) |
| TIDDLER | Mostly merry monarch? There’s a slight catch |
| WREN | Name of a "cave-dwelling" passerine songster of the genus Troglodytes, which is a diminutive farthing-worth of a bird, yet the proverbial monarch of its perch (4) |
| LANDSEER | Painter noted for Eos, The Sanctuary, The Monarch of the Glen, depictions of Newfoundlands such as A Distinguished Member of the Humane Society and for his lion sculptures in Trafalgar Square (8) |
| GEORGEV | Following his official renouncement of the name Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1917, the first monarch of the House of Windsor (6,1) |
| GEORGE | With the refuted nickname of the Pudding King, the first monarch of the House of Hanover (6) |
| OLDSTAGER | Veteran monarch in pursuit of The Monarch of the Glen? |
| SCONE | The Stone of ---, block of sandstone associated with the crowning of Scottish kings and latterly monarchs of the United Kingdom (5) |
| REALM | Kingdom of Lear, first monarch of it (5) |
