| GEORGEIV | Monarch who served as regent to his clinically insane father before assuming the throne |
| REGENCY | In England, the period during which the Prince of Wales acted as regent for his father George III (7) |
| URIEL | Archangel of the Apocrypha described in Milton's Paradise Lost as 'Regent of the Sun' (5) |
| LEVERAGE | Accountancy term for the French getting back father before a number of years (8) |
| EARLS | Robert Crawley and his father before him, on "Downton Abbey" |
| NEWORLEANS | American city, founded in 1718, named after a French duke who was regent to Louis XV (3,7) |
| INTEGER | A number one got the regent to make up (7) |
| MARYOFGUISE | Wife of James V of Scotland, who ruled as regent (1554-1560) |
| DOUBLEPARKING | Lend me your ear! And I will speak of the clumsy monarch who needed twice as many golf strokes as his opponents, for he was the ... |
| EDWARD | Monarch who chose to abdicate the throne in order to marry Mrs Wallis Simpson |
| ANNE | The last Stuart monarch, who died with no surviving children to inherit the throne |
| WILLIAMOFORANGE | Monarch who acceded to the English throne in 1689 with his wife Mary II (7,2,6) |
| GOINGUNDER | Assuming the name of, when the business is flopping (5,5) |
| EXPIRATION | Coming to an end of atonement, assuming the lead in reparations |
| DUTERTE | After assuming the presidency of the Philippines in 2016, he launched a deadly "war on drugs" |
| ANNEOFFRANCE | Eldest daughter of Louis XI; acted as regent during the minority of her brother Charles VIII (4,2,6) |
| ROTTENEGG | Got regent to give description of foul gas (6,3) |
| ISABELLA | French wife of English king Edward II, whom she deposed and succeeded as regent in 1326 (8) |
| KINGLEAR | Shakespearian tragedy about a monarch who gives his realm to his daughters (4, 4) |
| BIGCHEESE | One assuming the lead in "The Mousetrap"? (3,6) |
