| GRESHAM | Thomas ?, 16th-century financier who founded the Royal Exchange in London (7) |
| NINETTE | ___ de Valois, Irish-born British choreographer who founded the Royal Ballet (7) |
| VIGNOLA | Giacomo Barozzi da ?, 16th-century architect whose works include the Villa Farnese at Caprarola (7) |
| REUTERS | News agency founded in 1851 at the London Royal Exchange (7) |
| CELLINI | Benvenuto ?, 16th-century Italian sculptor whose works include Perseus with the Head of Medusa |
| BEECHAM | Conductor who co-founded the London Philharmonic Orchestra with Malcolm Sargent and founded the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (7) |
| OTHMAYR | Caspar ?, 16th-century German composer and theologian whose works include There is a Snow Fallen (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) |
| REACTOR | Royal Exchange player, one to respond to stimulus (7) |
| PELLATT | Canadian financier who had Toronto heritage landmark Casa Loma built, Sir Henry _ (b.1859 - d.1939) |
| 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) |
| ORELLANA | Francisco de ?, 16th-century Spanish explorer who completed the first known navigation of the entire length of the Amazon River |
| KYD | Thomas ?, 16th-century English dramatist who authored The Spanish Tragedy (3) |
| TALLIS | Thomas ?, 16th-century English composer and organist (6) |
| UDALL | Nicholas ?, 16th-century English playwright who authored the comedy Ralph Roister Doister |
| PALLADIO | Andrea ?, 16th-century Italian architect whose works include the Chiesa del Santissimo Redentore in Venice |
