| ALBERTS | Watch chains named after Queen Victoria's consort who popularised the tradition of Christmas trees in Britain (7) |
| PAGAN | Like the tradition of Christmas trees |
| ALBERT | Short watch-chain named after a 19th-century prince (6) |
| VIRGINIA | U.S. state named after Queen Elizabeth I (8) |
| PHILIP | Forename of the prince consort who gave his title, Duke of Edinburgh, to the youth scheme he founded (6) |
| STRELITZ | Prince Edward Island... Charlottetown is named after this Queen Consort who was married to King George III, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-___ (b.1744 - d.1818) |
| KINGSTOWER | Palace of Westminster structure, before its renaming after Queen Victoria |
| ERAS | Things sometimes named after queens |
| VII | Which Edward was king after Queen Victoria? (3) |
| KENDO | With its origins in the tradition of the samurai and meaning "way of the sword", a Japanese martial art and form of fencing using bamboo staves (5) |
| SONG | Any one of a series of musical compositions for voice as part of the tradition of wassailing, carolling or midnight mass (4) |
| EGGS | Said to turn to diamonds 100 years after being laid on Good Friday, symbols of birth, life and of spring, used in the tradition of jarping and depicted in chocolate at Easter (4) |
| ELIZABETHII | Monarch whose grandfather George V started the tradition of the Christmas speech in 1932 (9,1,1) |
| CHAUCER | Author whose poem The Parliament of Fowls is said to have contributed towards the tradition of Valentine's Day (7) |
| EPOS | Collection of poems concerned with the tradition of a people (4) |
| RUSKIN | Effie Gray's art critic first husband who revived the tradition of maypole dancing in England (6) |
| HIGHTEA | Informal meal popularised by the Duchess of Bedford, who began the tradition in 1840 (4,3) |
| LASH | "The traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the _": Winston Churchill (4) |
| PINEY | Like the scent of a forest of Christmas trees |
| NINJA | Kombat hotshot: Precision fighter in the tradition of elite Japanese mercenaries |