| RINGOSTARR | Stage name of Sir Richard Starkey |
| STARR | Stage name of English musician, singer, songwriter and actor Sir Richard Starkey (b. 1940) (5,5) |
| RINGO | Stage name of English musician, singer, songwriter and actor Sir Richard Starkey (b. 1940) (5,5) |
| NIMROD | What was the name of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship on his 1908-09 Antarctic expedition? (6) |
| IVANHOE | Vancouver-based mining company sharing the name of Sir Walter Scott's 1819 Saxon knight novel |
| STELLA | First name of Sir Paul McCartney's fashion label-owning daughter (6) |
| SIR | ___ Richard Starkey |
| AKA | It might come between Richard Starkey and Ringo Starr (3) |
| WEBB | Harry --, birth name of Sir Cliff Richard (4) |
| NEWLANARK | This site in Scotland was founded in 1785 as a cotton-spinning centre by David Dale with the support of Sir Richard Arkwright, inventor of the water frame. It was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage |
| SAFARIS | Many of Sir Richard Francis Burton's voyages |
| PERLINDSTRAND | Partner of Sir Richard Branson on ballooning adventures |
| NANCY | First name of Sir Paul McCartney's wife (5) |
| REVENGE | 'The --', Tennyson's account of Sir Richard Grenville's fight with the Spanish fleet at Flores in 1591 (7) |
| PELICAN | Former name of Sir Francis Drake's ship the Golden Hind (7) |
| NICHOLAS | Forename of Sir Christopher Wren or Sir John Vanbrugh's collaborator known as the "devil's architect" for his use of satanic or pagan symbols (8) |
| LEAN | What is the surname of Sir David, director of Lawrence of Arabia and Dr Zhivago ? (4) |
| RICHARDSON | Samuel -, author of 1753 novel The History of Sir Charles Grandison (10) |
| IAN | Forename of Sir McKellen who played the character Gandalf in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies (3) |
| KARSH | Photographer who shot the iconic "Roaring Lion" portrait of Sir Winston Churchill used on the cover of Life (5) |
