| Keen insight |
ACUMEN |
| Kingdom |
MONARCHY |
| Opening to admit light |
WINDOW |
| Order restricting time not at home |
CURFEW |
| Remarkable sight |
SPECTACLE |
| Specially dear person - likely winner |
FAVOURITE |
| Very (literally, in frightened style) |
FEARFULLY |
| Victorian novelist, George |
MEREDITH |
| Victorian novelist, William |
THACKERAY |
| Wind instrument |
CLARINET |
