| SAGACITY | Wisdom of a story of London, for example (8) |
| LORDMAYOR | Civic leader of the City of London, for example (4,5) |
| RAPACITY | Knock a part of London for greed (8) |
| FORTRESS | The Tower of London, for one |
| CROSSBOW | Traverse part of London for weapon |
| SOUTHERN | Roughly ten hours from London, for example (8) |
| CAPITALS | Letters from Canberra and London, for example (8) |
| OCCIDENT | Office in London for example almost finished after business heading up west |
| PROVERBS | Old Testament book containing the wisdom of 'the son of David, king of Israel' (8) |
| ANECDOTE | Just a story of Ted in a canoe (8) |
| SAGENESS | Wisdom of being in 11 with head (8) |
| PRUDENCE | The wisdom of Prude attending the northern church (8) |
| BARTLEBY | 1853 short story by Herman Melville subtitled A Story of Wall Street (8,3,9) |
| COUSTEAU | Author of "The Silent World: A Story of Undersea Discovery and Adventure" |
| ROSEBUDS | Crown material, in the Wisdom of Solomon |
| LABOHEME | Which Puccini opera tells a story of love among young artists in Paris? (2,6) |
| ACUMEN | Wisdom of a copper, soldiers |
| WALPOLE | Imprisoned in the Tower of London for some six months, a Kit-Cat Club member regarded as Britain's first prime minister, for whom Houghton Hall was built in the 1700s and whose son coined "serendipity |
| BASCULE | Either one of a pair of movable sections forming Tower Bridge in London, for example (7) |
| GREATER | Part of London, for instance, is more significant (7) |
