| GRESHAM | Sir Thomas ___, 16th-century financier who founded the Royal Exchange in London (7) |
| MORE | Sir Thomas _, 16th-century statesman (4) |
| NINETTE | ___ de Valois, Irish-born British choreographer who founded the Royal Ballet (7) |
| BEECHAM | Conductor who co-founded the London Philharmonic Orchestra with Malcolm Sargent and founded the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (7) |
| REUTERS | News agency founded in 1851 at the London Royal Exchange (7) |
| REDNESS | Show of embarrassment at the Royal Exchange sends it out (7) |
| FAIRFAX | Sir Thomas ___, general at the time of Cromwell (7) |
| VIGNOLA | Giacomo Barozzi da ___, 16th-century architect whose works include the Villa Farnese at Caprarola (7 |
| WAPPING | Start off from exchange in London area (7) |
| EPSTEIN | Financier who had an oil painting of Bill Clinton wearing a blue dress lounging on a chair in the Oval Office |
| REBECCA | Actress whose father founded the Royal Shakespeare Company (7,4) |
| PELLATT | Canadian financier who had Toronto heritage landmark Casa Loma built, Sir Henry _ (b.1859 - d.1939) |
| TYNDALE | William ___, 16th-century English translator of the Bible (7) |
| REACTOR | Royal Exchange player, one to respond to stimulus (7) |
| SPENSER | Edmund ___ : 16th century poet ? (7) |
| HOLBEIN | Hans ___, 16th-century German artist (7) |
| OTHMAYR | Caspar ___, 16th-century German composer and theologian whose works include There is a Snow Fallen ( |
| LINCOLN | Abraham ___ 16th President of the U.S.A. and the first to sport a beard in office |
| LAWRENCE | Sir Thomas ___. leading English portrait painter who was the fourth president of the Royal Academy (8) |
| TREE | Herbert Beerbohm - - -, actor and theatre manager who founded the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1904 (4) |
