| ANCIENTROME | Omen certain to disturb seat of empire |
| OTTOMAN | Seat of Empire, once (7) |
| ROMEO | Lover finds love under seat of empire |
| CONSULTANT | Adviser continued to want leader of empire restricted (10) |
| BURR | First book of Vidal's Narratives of Empire series |
| EXILE | Enforced absence of team left in outlying parts of empire (5) |
| LUKESKYWALKER | Physician to send up constitutional monarch, an enemy of Empire |
| RANEE | One of the royals managed outlying parts of empire |
| BALLARD | Author of Empire of the Sun, d. 2009 (7) |
| NIPPON | Pin-up picture of national leaders of empire (6) |
| ROMANBATHS | 'Republican monarchy': hard to penetrate crazy vestiges of Empire (5,5) |
| PREMIER | After reform of empire, queen remains head of government (7) |
| SAMMENDES | Director of "Empire of Light" |
| DOGE | End of empire for former head of state (4) |
| ELYSEE | Following end of empire, extremely lucky to spot palace (6) |
| OLIVIA | Star of Empire of Light, ... Colman |
| COLIN | Star of Empire of Light, ... Firth |
| IRE | Half of empire lost to outrage (3) |
| COLE | Self-taught Lancashire-born artist who painted The Oxbow, The Course of Empire: Consummation, The Titan's Goblet and The Voyage of Life series (4) |
| ETTUBRUTE | Victim, leader of Empire, falling back, true to form - his Shakespearean cry? (2,2,5) |
