| HILLIARD | Nicholas -; limner and portrait miniaturist at the courts of Elizabeth I and James I (8) |
| ESSEX | Earl in the court of Elizabeth I |
| PELICANS | Birds with the largest bills of all avians; symbols of Elizabeth I and of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (8) |
| BACON | Francis -; statesman and philosopher during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I (5) |
| RUFFS | Frills. usually starched. worn round the neck. particularly during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I (5) |
| HILARY | Named after a French bishop, the spring term of the courts of England and Wales and the courts of Ireland as well as the universities of Oxford and of Dublin (6) |
| CANCELLI | Lattice work barriers or enclosures seen in courts of law or churches (8) |
| FORENSIC | Relating to courts of law (8) |
| PAINTERS | Miniaturists |
| LOTTO | Artist of the Italian Renaissance trained in the Venetian school who painted Susanna and the Elders and Portrait of a Woman Inspired by Lucretia (5) |
| ECHO | "In the Courts of the Conqueror" author Walter R. ___-Hawk |
| TUDOR | Royal house of Elizabeth I and Henry VIII (5) |
| GILBERT | Physician to Elizabeth I and later James I who published his findings on terrestrial magnetism in the six-volume treatise De Magnete (7) |
| CAMPION | Saint Edmund _, Catholic martyr falsely accused of treason against Elizabeth I and hanged, drawn and quartered in 1581 (7) |
| MARCOPOLO | Venetian traveller to the courts of Kublai Khan ? (5,4) |
| ASSIZE | Courts of ____ heard major cases in England and Wales until they were replaced by the 1971 Courts Act |
| ARMSTRONG | Louis Stadium, one of the show courts of the US Open tennis tournament (9) |
| GARAI | Romola _, star of The Miniaturist and Becoming Elizabeth (5) |
| RAEBURN | Portraitist knighted by George IV in 1822 and subsequently given the post of King's Limner in Scotland (7) |
| WEYDEN | Van der -; Flemish artist whose works include The Descent from the Cross, Beaune Altarpiece (The Last Judgement) and Portrait of a Lady (6) |
