| DOESITHAVEANN | Q: ___ / A: There are two, in the third and seventh squares below |
| IGUESSM | Q: ___ A: There's one in the fifth square |
| MANICHAEANISM | One of the major Iranian Gnostic religions, originating in Sassanid Persia, that thrived between the third and seventh centuries |
| MUS | There are two in the Greek "Mnemosyne" |
| CLUBS | Social institutions - there are thirteen of them (5) |
| PUMPKINPATCH | Small square below an artsy jack-o'lantern's smile? |
| RONDELET | Poem whose first, third and seventh lines are identical |
| ANYAS | Q: ___ / A: Yes, two, in the second and sixth squares |
| COLMAN | Olivia, actress who played the Queen in the third and fourth series of the TV drama The Crown (6) |
| KEITHRICHARDS | Rolling Stones guitarist who played a pirate in the third and fourth "Pirates of the Caribbean" film |
| TRIOLET | Eight-line poem in which the first line repeats as the fourth and seventh and the second line repeats as the eighth (7) |
| OCONNOR | Josh, English actor who played Prince Charles in the third and fourth series of The Crown (7) |
| MENZIES | Tobias, English actor who played Prince Philip in the third and fourth seasons of The Crown (7) |
| DANCE | Charles, actor who played Lord Mountbatten in the third and fourth series of The Crown (5) |
| PUNIC | ___ Wars, fought between Rome and Carthage in the third and second centuries BC (5) |
| PAVBHAJI | Dish whose first word is hidden in the phrase "ropa vieja" and whose second word anagrams to "hijab": 2 wds. (Theme answer: this answer's first, fourth, and seventh letters are the sandwich abbreviati |
| ENS | There are two in London, one in NY. and none in Ottawa |
| HOWCANYOUSLEEPATNIGHT | Q: ___ / A: I turn off the lights and lie in my bed |
| HUGHLAURIE | British comic actor who played George in the third and fourth series of the historical sitcom Blackadder (4,6) |
| WINDFALL | Reel and stumble a there's a stroke of luck (8) |
