| YORKTOWN | Royal Family having tense private battle in Virginia (8) |
| DUAL | Double the sound of private battle |
| DUEL | Private battle |
| PRINCIPLES | Ground rules for member of royal family having one place inside society (10) |
| KINGS | Royal family having wings for guests |
| ASCITES | Case is unusual, having tense buildup of fluid in abdomen (7) |
| SPAT | Father goes after son, having tense disagreement |
| NODULES | No private battles performed on raised lumps |
| BEARSKIN | Tolerates family having a hat (8) |
| MEDICINE | Italian family having most of new drug (8) |
| BAKINGTRAY | A family having great time in Bray employed in a place where there's bread to be made (6,4) |
| SPUTNIK | Family having rams brought over in pioneer vehicle |
| ASPHODELS | Common name for various southern European plants of the lily family, having white, pink, or yellow flowers in elongated clusters (9) |
| ASPHODELUS | Genus of southern European plants of the lily family, having white, pink, or flowers in elongated clusters (10) |
| ABELMOSCHUS | Genus of tropical plants (in the hibiscus family), having large, lobed leaves and often yellow flowers (11) |
| NUCLEAR | Kind of family having eccentric uncle and aunt ridiculed, initially (7) |
| NAPKIN | Small sheet on the table, family having to sleep on top |
| HORNET | Largest of the wasp family, having a powerful sting (6) |
| SIMPSON | Surname of TV family having small devil child |
| MERRYMAKING | Be wrong to interrupt my mother and family having grand celebration (11) |