| THEANTIPODES | 1638 stage play by Richard Brome (3,9) |
| PITCAIRN | 2014 stage play by Richard Bean about the mutineers of the Bounty led by Fletcher Christian (8) |
| THECRITIC | A play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
| THERIVALS | A play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan first performed in 1775 (3,6) |
| LADYSNEERWELL | Leader of the titular School for Scandal in a 1777 play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (4,9) |
| ORIEL | 14th century Oxford university college founded by Adam de Brome (5) |
| COVENANT | National ----, signed by thousands of Scots in 1638 (8) |
| CHESS | A floorboard of a pontoon bridge; a game embodied by the goddess Caissa; or, a species of brome-grass, found growing with wheat (5) |
| LYCIDAS | Poem by English writer John Milton about a shepherd first published in 1638 (7) |
| HOBBEMA | Dutch painter: 1638-1709 |
| LOP | Word meaning to limply droop or hang, like a branch, brome-grass, rabbit's ear or tum; to chop, clip or crop; or, a gardener's twiggy tree trimmings and clippings duly cut off (3) |
| EMINENCE | And 6 Person wielding power or influence without holding an official position; from a nickname of Cardinal Richelieu's private secretary Pere Joseph (1577-1638) |
| DAVENANT | William ___, English dramatist and poet who succeeded Ben Jonson as Poet Laureate in 1638 (8) |
| GRISE | Person wielding power secretly or unofficially; originally applied to Pere Joseph (1577-1638) (5) |
| BRAGANZA | Catherine of ____, queen consort of King Charles II born in 1638 (8) |
| SUNKING | What was the common name of Louis XIV, King of France from 1638 to 1725? (3.4) |
| OCEAN | 'So sinks the day-star in the _ bed' (John Milton 'Lycidas' (1638) l. 168(5) |
| SHEEP | 'The hungry ___ look up, and are not fed' (John Milton 'Lycidas' (1638) |
| THEPITANDTHE | 1842 short story by Edgar Allan Poe adapted for the cinema by Richard Matheson in 1961 |
| DASRHEINGOLD | 1869 opera by Richard Wagner (3,9) |
