| MARTYR | Two queens, the first one running out of time, a victim of her faith (6) |
| BEHEAD | Take the lead to get rid of some queens the oldfashioned way (6) |
| ISABELLA | Spanish queen, the first murder victim in one's city? |
| ELIZABETHTAYLOR | Queen, the first royal rock star (9,6) |
| ALENCON | Noted for the "queen of laces and the lace of queens", the capital of Normandy's Orne department (7) |
| SEAS | Queen's "The Seven ___ of Rhye" |
| POWELL | Author of Dance To The Music Of Time, a 12-novel sequence chronicling the lives of around 300 characters (6) |
| PRINCE | A son of a king or queen; the male monarch of a microstate such as Andorra or Monaco; or, a man considered pre-eminent (6) |
| PAPACY | The office of pope and period of time a particular person is pope (6) |
| TENURE | Length of time a person holds a job, office, position or title (6) |
| MOMENT | Word for a brief portion of time; a particular stage or turning point; or, consequence, import or weight (6) |
| KEEPAT | Persist with reversal of time: a glimpse (4,2) |
| ERASER | Two queens drink when one blanks out (6) |
| VIENNA | Queen, the fourth seen around capital (6) |
| GANNET | Great accommodating queen, the greedy thing |
| ORTS | "The fractions of her faith, __ of her love": "Troilus..." |
| JAMESI | He succeeded two queens |
| PROCESS | A state of being carried on; course of time; a natural series of changes, as in ageing or digestion; or, a sequence of operations which produce a result (7) |
| TWOCITIES | The Charles Dickens novel with the opening line, 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times'; A Tale Of ... (3,6) |
| IRISHSEA | Man's environment is as part of Earth; is running out of time (5,3) |
