| DEBRETTS | Publisher of books on peerage and etiquette, each bearing a rose, thistle and shamrock colophon in gold (8) |
| YEOMANWARDERS | With an insignia bearing a rose, thistle and shamrock, ceremonial guardians of the Tower of London, popularly (but incorrectly) titled a beefeater (6,7) |
| LEEK | Accompanier of a rose, thistle and shamrock on some pound coins |
| TUDOR | Period that spanned the reigns of monarchs from Henry VII to Elizabeth I; or, an architectural style with decorative symbols including rose, thistle and fleur-de-lis (5) |
| POUNDS | Coins with a leek, thistle and shamrock |
| CENTIPEDE | Any myriapod of the class Chilopoda, with many segments, each bearing one pair of legs (9) |
| SEAAIR | Sons each bearing something refreshing |
| PERSE | Intrinsically for each bearing (3,2) |
| MARKHIX | Chef and restaurateur born in 1960 who has written a number of books on British cuisine (4,3) |
| PROTOCOL | Forms of ceremony and etiquette observed by diplomats and heads of state (8) |
| BURKE | John ___, Irish genealogist who first published his Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the United Kingdom in 1826 |
| MOPSUS | Son of Apollo and Manto in Greek mythology reputed to have founded the city of Colophon (6) |
| STUART | Royal house or dynasty during whose reign the Marriage of the Thistle and the Rose took place in 1503 (6) |
| BEAUNASH | Welsh dandy, arbiter of fashion and etiquette in early Georgian age (4,4) |
| SCOTLAND | With national symbols including thistle and unicorn, the birth country of Robert Burns and Arthur Conan Doyle, location of the Glenfinnan Viaduct (8) |
| DUNBAR | Which Scottish poet at the court of James IV wrote the political allegory The Thistle and the Rose ( |
| ENDTABLE | It might have a lamp or a stack of books on it |
| NINETTEDUTTON | Which Australian writer of books on enamel art, cookery, gardening and fiction wrote the 2000 Home: |
| DEBRETT | Bookseller who wrote the 1769 "who's who" of aristocratic titles The Peerage and Baronetage; his name is synonymous with British etiquette (7) |
| IONIA | Ancient region of western Asia Minor whose major cities included Colophon and Ephesus (5) |
