| STATOR | Steadfast supporter, epithet of Jupiter |
| STALWART | Steadfast supporter |
| LOYALIST | Converted to ally, is steadfast supporter (8) |
| ADHERENT | A follower or steadfast supporter (8) |
| CYTHEREA | Epithet of Venus (Aen 1.257) as goddess of island south of the Peloponnese |
| SARTO | Italian word for "tailor", which is the epithet of the Florentine painter Andrea d'Agnolo di Francesco di Luca, whose frescos include The Journey of the Magi and The Nativity of the Virgin (5) |
| SUNKING | Epithet of Louis XIV of France (3,4) |
| LASERENISSIMA | Traditional epithet of the Republic of Venice |
| KINGMAKER | Warwick the ---, epithet of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (9) |
| REVEREND | Which epithet of respect is applied to a minister of religion, etc (8) |
| BELL | Sharing her forename with the Latin epithet of the painted lady butterfly, an artist whose portrait The Memoir Club depicts prominent members of the Bloomsbury Group, including her sister, Virginia Wo |
| SWAN | Stately cygnus immortalised in ice sculpture, towel art, an epithet of the Bard of Avon and on vesta boxes (4) |
| HAMMEROFTHESCOTS | Epithet of Edward I Longshanks |
| THEBARD | Epithet of Shakespeare (3,4) |
| REDPLANET | Epithet of Mars (2 wds.) |
| BARD | Epithet of William Shakespeare (with "The") |
| STAGIRITE | An epithet of Aristotle (9) |
| HANOI | ___ Jane, celebrity epithet of 1972 |
| ARMIPOTENS | Warlike epithet of Mars, Minerva, Diana, Deiphobus inter alii |
| DESTROYER | Epithet of Hindu god Shiva (9) |
