| THECASTLEOFOTRANTO | 1764 novel by Horace Walpole |
| THECASTLE | 1764 novel by Horace Walpole (3,6,2,7) |
| OFOTRANTO | 1764 novel by Horace Walpole (3,6,2,7) |
| OTRANTO | 'The Castle of -', 1764 novel by Horace Walpole (7) |
| CASTLE | The ___ of Otranto gothic novel by Horace Walpole which tells the story of Manfred and his family |
| SERENDIPITY | Word, coined by Horace Walpole, for the faculty of making fortunate or happy discoveries by accident (11) |
| EARL | Horace Walpole, for example |
| GRAY | Friend of Horace Walpole who wrote Ode on the Spring and Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (4) |
| GIBBONS | Creator of the Carved Room at Petworth House and of a lime-wood cravat so realistic that its former owner Sir Horace Walpole wore it to greet visitors at Strawberry Hill (7) |
| HERMITAGE | Museum of art and culture in St. Petersburg, founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great (9) |
| SPINNINGJENNY | Labour-saving device invented by James Hargreaves in 1764 (8,5) |
| HOGARTH | William --, 1697-1764, engraver and painter (7) |
| LOCATELLI | Italian composer and violinist who died in 1764 (9) |
| LATROBE | Benjamin Henry _ (1764- 1820) (7) |
| BROWNUNIVERSITY | *Rhode Island school since 1764 |
| BROWN | Ivy League university founded in 1764 (5) |
| RAMEAU | French composer 1683-1764 (6) |
| ANGOSTURA | The name, from 1764-1846, of the Venezuelan port Ciudad Bolivar (9) |
| HARGREAVES | English inventor credited with inventing the spinning jenny in 1764, James ... |
| ARSPOETICA | Poem written by Horace c. 19 BC and first translated into English in 1566 by Thomas Drant |
