| VICOMTE | Title of a French nobleman corresponding to a British peer ranking above a baron and below an earl ( |
| VISCOUNT | Peer ranking above a baron and below an earl; or, a circular mint chocolate biscuit with a green wrapper (8) |
| THEM | Word between Let and Eat Cake gives the title of a French & Saunders sitcom (4) |
| COMTE | Title for a French nobleman |
| EARL | British peer ranking above a viscount and below a marquess (4) |
| THANE | Anglo-Saxon noble ranked above an ordinary freeman and below an eorl or ealdorman |
| COUNT | The act of numbering; the sum tallied; a measure of the fineness of yarn; or, a European title of nobility, equal in rank to a British earl (5) |
| EARLS | British peers ranking above viscounts but below marquesses (5) |
| GRAF | Historical title of the German nobility corresponding to a European count or British earl (4) |
| EARLDOM | Historically, a type of realm governed by a male peer ranking between viscount and marquess (7) |
| EXCELLENCY | His or Her ___ , title given to a British ambassador accredited to a foreign country (10) |
| CUNNINGHAM | Jack, who became a baron and who served in Tony Blair's cabinet (10) |
| ALOCKOUT | A move by an employer corresponding to a strike by workers (1,7) |
| SADSTORY | A tragedy perhaps to give society's publicity materials to a British politician (3,5) |
| MASHIE | Old golf club corresponding to a modern five iron, used for lofting and approach shots (6) |
| RUN | Human gait corresponding to a horse's canter/gallop and apparently "like the clappers" when very fast (3) |
| LORDSHIP | Title used to address a British peer (8) |
| JOHN | Forced to submit to the barons and sign the Magna Carta on June 15, 1215, son of Henry II who succeeded his brother Richard the Lionheart as king of England (4) |
| IRONMONARCH | Open-cut iron mine joins Iron Knob, Iron Baron and Iron Prince as a major supplier of Australia's ir |
| KNIGHTHOOD | Title given to a British male for services to his country (10) |
