| WALLISSIMPSON | She was Duchess of Windsor, 1937-1986 (6,7) |
| AQUITAINE | French region of which Eleanor, wife of Henry II, was duchess |
| ARCHER | Show whose working title was "Duchess," after Malory's dog |
| PARIS | French capital, site of a Villa Windsor, the home of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor from 1953 until their deaths in 1972 and 1986 respectively (5) |
| WALLIS | First name of Mrs Simpson, Duchess of Windsor (6) |
| SIMPSON | Duchess of Windsor, Wallis ... |
| WYKEHAM | William of -; bishop who directed the reconstruction of the upper ward of Windsor Castle in 31 Any one of the 300 billion luminous bodies of hydrogen and helium in the Milky Way whose birth takes plac |
| ACTAEON | This hunter, a grandson of Cadmus, saw Diana bathing, which meant she turned him into a stag that was then killed by his dogs. In The Merry Wives of Windsor (act 2, scene 1), Pistol says, "Like Sir __ |
| GEORGEV | Following his official renouncement of the name Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1917, the first monarch of the House of Windsor (6,1) |
| NICOLAI | Co-founder of the Vienna Philharmonic who composed an operatic version of Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor (7) |
| GOTHA | Saxe-Coburg and -; former name of the House of Windsor (5) |
| LANCERS | _____ of University of Windsor |
| BARDOLPH | A follower of Falstaff in 'The Merry Wives of Windsor' (8) |
| MISTRESSPAGE | Name one of the Merry Wives of Windsor. |
| PISTOL | Follower of Falstaff in Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor (6) |
| MISTRESSFORD | One of Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor (8,4) |
| WIVES | The Merry - of Windsor; one of the plays by Shakespeare with Sir John Falstaff (5) |
| MAIDENHEAD | Royal Borough of Windsor & ___ (Where Queen Elizabeth's weekend home Windsor Castle is located in England) |
| JACOBI | Derek -; actor whose television roles include the title character in Cadfael and the Duke of Windsor in the third series of The Crown (6) |
| WYATT | Architect in the neo-Gothic style who designed Fonthill Abbey, the forth version of Belvoir Castle and remodelled parts of Windsor Castle (5) |
