| TUDOR | Royal dynasty in England (1485 1603) |
| TUDORS | Name the monarchs who ruled England 1485-1603 (6) |
| TUDORROSE | Symbol of the monarchs of England 1485-1603 |
| PLANTAGENET | Royal dynasty that ruled England from the ascent of Henry II in 1154 to the death of Richard III in 1485 (11) |
| GHANA | Dynasty in Georgia or in Africa (5) |
| YUAN | Which dynasty preceded the Ming dynasty in China? (4) |
| HAPSBURG | A principal dynasty in central Europe founded in 1153 (8) |
| HANOVER | From 1635 until it was dissolved in 1918, this Germanic royal dynasty provided many of Europe's mona |
| HABSBURGS | Royal dynasty which reached its zenith in the reign of Emperor Charles V |
| CHARMING | Royal dynasty replacing the French kisser in a rescue act (6,8) (see 1A) |
| PRINCE | Royal dynasty replacing the French kisser in a rescue act (6,8) (see 4A) |
| XANADU | Summer capital of Kublai Khan's Yuan dynasty in China; a city that features in a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (6) |
| HSIA | Early dynasty in Asia (which, in this spelling, is a letter off from "ASIA") |
| MAYDAY | Man, a royal dynasty frequently chosen? We're in trouble (6) |
| RABY | From Old Norse for "boundary settlement", a 120-room medieval castle in Co Durham, built for the Neville dynasty in the 14th century (4) |
| EVANS | Surname of Linda, Krystle Carrington in Dynasty in the 1980s (5) |
| HAN | Chinese dynasty in power during Christ's lifetime |
| CHOU | Chinese dynasty in which Confucius lived |
| MANDARINORANGE | Fruit of Chinese royal dynasty (8,6) |
| GODALMING | Aim to enshrine deceased dynasty in Surrey town (9) |