| AULIC | Of a royal court |
| EUNUCH | Castrated servant of a royal court (6) |
| CHAPEL | Small type of church or holy sanctuary; a choir attached to a royal court or the aforementioned place of worship; a printing office; or, a trade union of journalists (6) |
| ETIQUETTE | From the French meaning "label" or "list of ceremonial observances at a royal court", a code of polite behaviour in social or official life (9) |
| MINSTREL | Travelling from village to village or employed by a royal court, a wandering medieval musician or troubadour (8) |
| PROM | Occasion to choose a royal court |
| JEST | Entertain at a royal court |
| SCOP | Anglo-Saxon minstrel or bard, often attached to a royal court (4) |
| WARDROBE | Armoire; theatrical company's stock of costumes; department of a royal household in charge of clothes, jewels and robes; or, a ship's complement of sails (8) |
| CONSTABLE | From Latin for "maste r of the horses", title of the governor or warden of a royal castle of fortress; or, in its modern sense, a police officer (9) |
| STJAMESSPALACE | Formal base of the royal court in London |
| WRIT | Comedian digesting beginning of royal court document |
| HAGUE | The ___ : seat of Royal court in Netherlands? |
| PALACE | Official residence of a monarch, member of a royal family or a bishop (6) |
| GLEN | A narrow valley with a stream, such as Scotland's Affric that is held to be the setting of Sir Edwin Landseer's painting of a royal red deer stag (4) |
| LELY | Best known for his portraits of silk-swathed ladies in Windsor Beauties, Dutch artist whose career was spent in England as painter to the Royal court (4) |
| THRONE | Audience's impression of cast from seat at The Royal Court (6) |
| SLOANE | ___ Square, site of London's Royal Court Theatre (6) |
| CAMELOT | Left in piece of jewellery on time for royal court |
| STJAMES | The royal court of the UK, to which foreign diplomats are accredited (2,5) |
