| RASSELAS | Prince of Abyssinia in a 1759 novel by Samuel Johnson (8) |
| CANDIDE | 1759 novel by Voltaire set partially in Lisbon (7) |
| ESSAYIST | It's easy to struggle over earliest of speeches by Samuel Johnson for instance (8) |
| PANGLOSS | Professor in the 1759 novel Candide by Voltaire |
| CLARISSA | 1748 novel by Samuel Richardson subtitled The History of a Young Lady (8) |
| PLAINSOF | Field between central Quebec City and the St Lawrence River, Canada; site of a 1759 British victory in the Seven Years" War (6,2,7) |
| VOLTAIRE | Author of 1759 novel Candide (8) |
| THIRTIES | Last century's decade of the bodyline series, the invasion of Abyssinia and the Silver Jubilee of Ki |
| ETHIOPIA | Formerly Abyssinia, I hope it goes with a different name now. (8) |
| WORDS | Listed in a dictionary by Samuel Johnson or a thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget for example, units of language studied in lexicology (5) |
| NEGUS | As sung in the East to theking of Abyssinia (5) |
| HEIGHTS | ___ of Abraham: scene of a 1759 battle between British and French troops (7) |
| IDLER | The -; series of essays by Samuel Johnson, Joshua Reynolds and others (5) |
| HARLOWE | Clarissa ?, title character of a 1748 epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson subtitled the History of a Young Lady |
| FIGHTFORENGLAND | Be on General Wolfe's side of the battlefield at the Plains of Abraham as a 1759 soldier: 3 wds. |
| MINDEN | City in North Rhine-Westphalia on the River Weser, scene of a 1759 battle during the Seven Years' War (6) |
| ABRAHAM | Field between central Quebec City and the St Lawrence River, Canada; site of a 1759 British victory in the Seven Years" War (6,2,7) |
| EREWHON | 1872 novel by Samuel Butler - the title is the name of a fictional country (7) |
| HURLOTHRUMBO | Nonsense play by Samuel Johnson (12) |
| WAYOFALLFLESH | "The ... ... ... ... ", novel by Samuel Butler narrated by the character Overton (3,2,3,5) |
