| ELIHUYALE | A US university was named after this president of an East India Company settlement, which became Madras |
| MARYSOMERVILLE | One of the first women's colleges of Oxford University was named after this Scots mathematician (4,10) |
| YALE | Which US university was founded in 1701? (4) |
| FRANCOISHOLLANDE | Emmanuel Macron succeeded this president of France |
| COMPROMISE | Politician is in the capital of Italy supporting company settlement (10) |
| ADMIRAL | Nelson became mad liar (7) |
| CRACKED | Became mad when fractured (7) |
| SADAT | President of an African nation from 1970 to 1981 |
| NYERERE | Julius, first president of an independent Tanzania (7) |
| HENRIETTA | The US state of Maryland was named after this wife of Charles I of England, Princess ... Maria |
| SINGAPORE | Now a city-state, it was founded by Stamford Raffles of the East India Company in the early 19th century (9) |
| CLIVE | Robert ---, agent of the East India Company and Commander-in-Chief of British India in 1756 (5) |
| PISA | It is a city on the Arno 50 miles (80 km) west of Florence. It became a Roman colony soon after 180 BCE. Its university was founded circa 1343. Its piazza includes a certain leaning tower. In The Tami |
| ALBI | A 13th-century crusade against the Cathars was named after this city in southern France |
| IMARI | The style of porcelain from Japan exported through this Kyushu port and reaching Europe by means of the Dutch East India Company |
| SEPOYS | Troops in the service of the British East India Company, who instigated the Indian Rebellion of 1857 (6) |
| RAFFLES | A clerk in the East India Company who founded the modern state of Singapore (7) |
| PUNJAB | Region of north-west India annexed by the British East India Company in 1849 (6) |
| EMORY | Bishop John for whom a Georgia university was named |
| NEWYORK | Settlement which was called New Amsterdam in 1626, chartered as a city in 1653 (3,4) |
