| TROOPING | ___ The Colour, annual parade to mark the Queen's official birthday (8) |
| JUNE | Month of the Queen's official birthday in the UK (4) |
| FESTIVAL | Season of concerts, events or performances such as the Proms or that held in 1951 to mark the centenary of the Great Exhibition (8) |
| OMPHALOS | Stone at Delphi assumed to mark the centre of the earth (8) |
| ACCOLADE | An embrace or ceremonial tap on the shoulder with a sword to mark the conferring of knighthood; or, an award or honour (8) |
| PASADENA | Annual parade site |
| SEARCHME | What will singer do to mark the hour? 14! Who knows? 14! (6,2) |
| HENPARTY | All-female celebration to mark the end of spinsterhood (3,5) |
| COLOUR | Trooping the _, British military ceremony performed on Horse Guards Parade in London annually to celebrate the British monarch's official birthday (6) |
| TROOPINGTHECOLOUR | Annual ceremony on Horse Guards Parade which takes place on the sovereign's official birthday |
| PALACE | Holyrood -; the Queen's official residence in Edinburgh (6) |
| AMIES | Hardy, British fashion designer who was appointed the Queen's official dressmaker in 1955 (5) |
| TROOPED | Soldiers did this on the king's official birthday (Ted held the poor back) (7) |
| GREATSEAL | - - of the Realm; Queen's official stamp obsignated at the office of the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery (5,4) |
| BEATON | Once resident at Ashcombe House in Wiltshire, an Oscar-winning costume designer who was the Queen's official photographer at her Coronation (6) |
| CHIEF | Hail To The ___: song often played to mark the appearance of the US president. (5) |
| REDIS | "___ the color that my baby wore ..." (from "Yes It Is" by the Beatles) |
| ADAPT | No heir in hit parade to convert (5) |
| BIGOTED | Part of parade to Gibraltar returned wearing blinkers? (7) |
| TICKERTAPE | Traditional kind of New York parade to welcome a visiting dignitary (6-4) |
