| GRESHAM | Sir Thomas, 16th Century financier who founded the Royal Exchange in London (7) |
| WYATT | Sir Thomas -, sixteenth century English poet and diplomat |
| NINETTE | ___ de Valois, Irish-born British choreographer who founded the Royal Ballet (7) |
| REUTERS | News agency founded in 1851 at the London Royal Exchange (7) |
| BEECHAM | Conductor who co-founded the London Philharmonic Orchestra with Malcolm Sargent and founded the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (7) |
| REDNESS | Show of embarrassment at the Royal Exchange sends it out (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) |
| REACTOR | Royal Exchange player, one to respond to stimulus (7) |
| TREE | Herbert Beerbohm - - -, actor and theatre manager who founded the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1904 (4) |
| PETERHALL | British theatre director who founded the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1960 (5,4) |
| KYD | Thomas -, 16th-century English dramatist who authored The Spanish Tragedy (3) |
| TAKLIS | Thomas, 16th century English composer of the motet Spem in alium (6) |
| HAIG | Commander-in-chief during the Battle of the Somme who co-founded the Royal British Legion (4) |
| TRINITY | What is the common name for the Oxford University College founded in 1555 by Sir Thomas Pope and whose former students include Cardinal Newman and William Pitt the Elder? (7) |
| ROTUNDA | What, donated by Sir Thomas Elder to the Adelaide 200, was constructed in 1884 and remains the largest of its kind in the state? (7) |
| SCEPTRE | PC exchange in presence of staff (7) |
| GOESIPO | Hits the exchange, in Wall Street lingo |
