| MENELAUS | Spartan king, the husband of Helen (8) |
| LEONIDAS | Spartan king famed for his heroic last stand against the vast army of Xerxes at the battle of Thermopylae (8) |
| HOFFMANN | E.T.A. ___; author of The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, the Christmas story that was adapted into a ballet (8) |
| KNIGHTED | Dubbed King The Mad Duke (8) |
| ENTHRONE | Make Queen upset, then King the same (8) |
| DEAFMUTE | Nick Andrus of King's "The Stand", for one |
| SONINLAW | Historical term for a stepchild; or, an affine in the form of the husband of one's daughter/progeny (3-2-3) |
| ETHELRED | King, - the Unready |
| EVILTWIN | Villain in Stephen King's "The Dark Half," e.g. |
| AVENGERS | 1960s British spy series on which Canadian actress Linda Thorson portrayed Tara King, "The ___" |
| GEORGE | With the refuted nickname of the Pudding King, the first monarch of the House of Hanover (6) |
| HELEN | Wife of the Spartan king Menelaus in Greek mythology, usually said to be the daughter of Zeus and Leda (5) |
| JONBONJOVI | Singer who plays the ex-husband of Helen Hunt's character in "Pay It Forward" |
| CRIMSON | The -------King, the primary antagonist of Stephen King's Dark Tower series of novels (7) |
| KERB | The king, the queen and the bishop on the edge (4) |
| ADAM | The first man and the husband of Eve and the progenitor of the human race (4) |
| REGALIS | Meaning "little king", the genus of the goldcrest and the kinglet (7) |
| MOLLIE | First name of Ms King, the member of The Saturdays who took part in Strictly in 2017 (6) |
| AHAB | In the Old Testament, king of Israel who was the husband of Jezebel |
| THOR | Norse deity depicted in the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda as the husband of the golden-haired goddess Sif (4) |
