| DUNBAR | Scene of an Oliver Cromwell triumph |
| OOM | Start of an "Oliver!" song title |
| DOORS | Subject of an Oliver Stone movie |
| HAND | One of these menaced Michael Caine in an Oliver Stone movie (4) |
| ROLAND | A ___ for an Oliver |
| OBSERVATIONAL | It's like watching alumni at an Oliver production |
| AHAT | Final two words in an Oliver Sacks story title |
| APRON | An Oliver costume? (5) |
| TITFORTAT | A Roland for an Oliver (3,3,3) |
| ANDALL | A last drawn line initially exposed such an unprepossessing portrait of Oliver Cromwell (5,3,3) |
| WARTS | A last drawn line initially exposed such an unprepossessing portrait of Oliver Cromwell (5,3,3) |
| ANTONIAFRASER | Historical biographer of Mary Queen of Scots and Oliver Cromwell, who also created Jemima Shore, the investigative journalist (7,6) |
| LORDPROTECTOR | Oliver Cromwell, defender of the aristocracy? |
| HUNTINGDON | Birthplace of Oliver Cromwell (10) |
| ROUNDHEAD | Supporter of Oliver Cromwell during the English Civil War (9) |
| NIXON | Role played by Anthony Hopkins in an Oliver Stone film (5) |
| GALLIPOLI | Peninsula of NW Turkey between the Dardanelles and the Aegean Sea, scene of an attempted invasion of the Ottoman Empire by Allied forces during World War I 1915 (9) |
| MINCEPIES | Festive dried fruit, spice and pastry confections that were traditionally savoury; the eating of which on Christmas Day, according to a myth about Oliver Cromwell, is illegal (5,4) |
| IRETON | Henry, English Parliamentarian general and son-inlaw of Oliver Cromwell (6) |
| NASEBY | Village in Northamptonshire; site of a 1645 victory for Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War |
