| ROYALIST | Possibly solitary supporter of the kings (8) |
| THRONE | Supporter of the king? |
| GEOFFREY | Cleric from 12 who wrote The History of the Kings of Britain in about 1136 (8) |
| IRRITANT | Two of the Kings of Ireland, one upset by heartless taunt that's a thorn in someone's side (8) |
| TUTSTOMB | Valley of the Kings discovery in '22 in Egypt: 2 wds. |
| CROMWELL | Blacksmith's son who served as Cardinal Wolsey's lawyer, later obtaining office as master of the king's jewel house and Henry VIII's principal secretary and adviser (8) |
| CARTER | Archaeologist whose excavations in the Valley of the Kings, financed by the 5th Earl of Carnarvon of Highclere Castle, led to said Egyptologist's discovery of the intact tomb of the boy-pharaoh Tutank |
| REIMS | City in the Champagne-Ardenne region; the traditional site of the crowning of the kings of France (5) |
| GREATBELZONI | In 1817, this collector of antiquities and explorer first set foot inside the tomb of Seti I in the Valley of the Kings, where he discovered Seti's sarcophagus. He was known by many epithets, but the |
| HUESCA | City in Spain at the foot of the Pyrenees which was the residence of the kings of Aragon until 1118 (6) |
| LION | Any one of the "kings of the beasts" formerly kept in the Tower of London's royal menagerie (4) |
| LUXOR | Which city on the Nile is the base for visiting such sights as the Valley of the Kings? (5) |
| GEOFFREYOFMONMOUTH | Cleric who wrote The History of the Kings of Britain |
| EGYPT | Country of the Valley of the Kings (5) |
| INFANTE | A title given to every one of sons of the kings of Spain (7) |
| KENT | The Duke of ... is the President of the King's Lynn Festival (4) |
| ECHO | Part of pharaoh celebrations around what's heard again and again in the Valley of the Kings presumably (4) |
| HATSHEPSUT | Female Pharaoh of Egypt, entombed in the Valley of the Kings (10) |
| EIGHTH | Ordinal following the regnal names of the kings preceding Edward VI and George VI; or, the musical interval also called an octave (6) |
| PHARAOH | Title of the kings of ancient Egypt |
