| OFFA | Within a trumpet narcissus, backwards, you have the Anglo-Saxon king of Mercia from 757 until 796AD! (4) |
| LUDO | Loud game in which players move counters round a board according to throws of a dice, as in the trumpet narcissus cultivar! (4) |
| EGBERT | King of Wessex whose victory over Beornwulf of Mercia at the Battle of Ellendun is described in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (6) |
| WITAN | Short name for the council of the Anglo-Saxon kings of England (5) |
| OFFASDYKE | Earthwork that runs along some of the England-wales border, named after the King of Mercia 757-796 (5,4) |
| HAROLD | Killed with an arrow to his eye by Norman invaders led by William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England (6) |
| EDGAR | 'The A†theling,' last member of the Anglo-Saxon royal house of England who was proclaimed King of England in 1066 |
| EDWARD | - the Confessor; penultimate Anglo-Saxon king of England, son of Ethelred the Unready (6) |
| IRONSIDE | Edmund, Anglo-Saxon King of England who was the son of Ethelred the Unready (8) |
| TAMWORTH | Market town in Southeast Staffordshire, capital of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Mercia (8) |
| EDWIN | Anglo-Saxon king of Northumbria; or, the first name of an Orkney-bom poet who translated many of Franz Kafka's novels with his wife Willa (5) |
| OCTA | An Anglo-Saxon King of Kent during the 6th century who appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae |
| ETHELRED | Anglo-Saxon king of England from 978-1013 and 1014-1016, known as 'the Unready' (8) |
| ALFRED | - - - the Great, Anglo-Saxon king of the ninth century (6) |
| EARL | From the Anglo-Saxon meaning "chief", the oldest title and rank of English nobles (4) |
| MILITIA | A body of non-professional soldiers, such as the Anglo-Saxon fyrd, drafted from local communities (7) |
| GREAT | Alfred the ---, Anglo-Saxon king (5) |
| CONFESSOR | Edward the -, Anglo-saxon king (9) |
| UNREADY | Ethelred the - - -, Anglo-Saxon king |
| MERCIA | Anglo-Saxon kingdom of central and southern England that reached its peak during the reign of King Offa (757-96) (6) |
