| ABEL | - Tasman, 17th century Dutch navigator (4) |
| TASMAN | Abel ___, 17th-century Dutch navigator who circumnavigated Australia (6) |
| HALS | 17th century Dutch portrait painter (4) |
| LELY | Peter ---, 17th Century Dutch-English artist who painted Oliver Cromwell "warts and all" (4) |
| MAES | Nicolaes, 17th century Dutch painter whose works include Portrait of a Man in a Black Wig (4) |
| SPRY | Educator, co-deviser of coronation chicken and influential society bouquetiere whose unique approach to floristry was inspired by 17th-century Dutch floral art (4) |
| DOWE | 17th-century Dutch painter, Douwe Juwes de ___ |
| RIJN | 17th-century Dutch artist, Rembrandt van ___ |
| CUYP | Aelbert -, seventeenth century Dutch painter |
| ABELTASMAN | Dutch navigator who was the first European discoverer of New Zealand (1642) and Tonga and Fiji (1643) (4,6) |
| TAPSMAN | Dutch navigator engaging quiet chap once working in bar |
| BARENTS | - - - Sea, a part of the Arctic Ocean named after a Dutch navigator and explorer (7) |
| STEEN | 17th century Dutch painter |
| VERMEER | 17th-century Dutch painter |
| TULIP | Flower traded on 17th-century Dutch stock exchanges |
| TULIPS | Valuable 17th-century Dutch commodities |
| REMBRANDT | 17th century Dutch artist, painter of "The Night Watch" |
| SPINOZA | Baruch, 17th Century Dutch philosopher, who wrote Ethics (7) |
| TER | 17th-century Dutch artist, Gerard ___ Borch |
| STEENS | Works by 17th century Dutch painter Jan |
