| MCMX | Year George V took the throne |
| MMI | Year George W. Bush became president |
| OSLO | City that hosted the Winter Olympics 8 days after Elizabeth II took the throne |
| MLX | When France's Philip I took the throne |
| QEII | Monarch who took the throne in '52 |
| PAULIV | Pope when Elizabeth I took the throne |
| THIRTIES | The decade of the bodyline series, the invasion of Abyssinia and the Silver Jubilee of King George V |
| EDWARD | - VIII; eldest son of George V and Mary of Teck, depicted by Alex Jennings in the 2016 drama series The Crown (6) |
| ELIZABETHII | Monarch whose grandfather George V started the tradition of the Christmas speech in 1932 (9,1,1) |
| BOGNOR | West Sussex seaside resort, granted the suffix Regis (of the king) by George V (6) |
| QUEENMARY | Cruise ship named after the wife of George V and used as a troop transport during the war (5,4) |
| DRUDGE | George V impolite about George I causing resentment (6) |
| NUDGE | A prod from George V when in the altogether (5) |
| PYRAH | Malcolm ___, showjumper who won the King George V Gold Cup in 1985 and 1987 (5) |
| CHAPEL | - Royal; building forming part of St James's Palace where the marriages of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert and George V and Mary of Teck were held (6) |
| MARYOFTECK | Queen consort of King George V and mother to Edward VIII and George VI (4,2,4) |
| TAKINGOFF | Note from George V taken in by posh bloke leading up to The Rising? (6,3) |
| EDWARDIAN | ____ period, era in British history between the reigns of Queen Victoria and King George V (9) |
| HARVEY | English show-jumper who won the 1970 King George V Gold Cup (6) |
| SMITH | English show-jumper who won the 1970 King George V Gold Cup (5) |
