| VILLANELLE | Poem: "The Holiday Home, the Royal Mistress and Earl" (10) |
| LILLIELANGTRY | Actress, royal mistress and renowned beauty nicknamed the Jersey Lily (6,7) |
| JARDINDESPLANTES | The oldest botanical garden in Paris, originally created in 1635 by Louis XIII's physicians to house the royal medicinal herb garden (6,3,7) |
| WEEKENDER | Ken is bitten by a tiny red-back at the holiday house (9) |
| LETS | Let us briefly see the holiday homes to rent (4) |
| KENNELLING | Almost stop royal mistress entertained by monarch being cooped up like a pet (10) |
| EQUIVALENT | Peer and earl leave, admitting venal manoeuvring (10) |
| KNICKNAMES | Patrick Ewing and Earl "The Pearl" Monroe? |
| DELIBERATE | Duke and Earl free to take stock (10) |
| MADAM | It's the mistress and the master, mother (5) |
| KNELL | Royal Mistress heard in "The Ring" (5) |
| NELLGWYN | Royal mistress whose elder son became the first Duke of St Albans (4,4) |
| NELL | Actress and royal mistress, - Gwyn (4) |
| TERPSICHORE | Dance mistress and dissolute priest on the job (11) |
| KEPPEL | Edward VII's mistress and the Duchess of Cornwall's great grandmother, Alice ... (6) |
| BRAUN | Across The mistress and later wife of Adolf Hitler (3,5) |
| EVA | The mistress and later wife of Adolf Hitler (3,5) |
| MARVELL | Metaphysical poet who wrote To His Coy Mistress and The Garden (7) |
| LADYSMAID | She helps dress the mistress and transform dismal day |
| KNEEL | King, King's mistress and the sound of fate? |
