| BLACKDEATH | A plague that killed millions of people in Europe in the 14th century (5,5) |
| AVALANCHE | Natural event which kills around 100 people in Europe each year (9) |
| SLAV | Member of the most numerous ethnic and linguistic peoples in Europe (4) |
| PESTLE | Plague that the French apothecary handled. (6) |
| EPIDEMIC | Plague that is prevalent (8) |
| NATIONALISM | Ideology that was typical of the the periods of liberation in Europe in the 18th century and in Asia and Africa in the post-colonial 20th |
| SPICETRADE | Venice controlled it in the 14th century |
| ROTTERDAM | Largely destroyed in the Second World War, which of the Netherlands' cities was chartered in the 14th century and is now one of the largest ports in the world? (9) |
| TIMBERLINE | Nottingham finally with place in Europe in draw showing Forest's limitations (6,4) |
| WARSAWPACT | Treaty signed by Communist states in Europe in 1955 (6,4) |
| PESTILENCE | A plague |
| DADA | Art movement that originated in Europe in the early 20th century as a reaction by artists who wanted to reject the modern capitalist society |
| ASSYRIA | Emerging as an independent state in the 14th century BCE, it became a major power in Mesopotamia, Armenia, and sometimes in northern Syria, before declining after the death of Tukulti-Ninurta I about |
| GREATPLAGUE | Affliction that killed an estimated quarter of Europe's population in the 14th century: 2 wds. |
| BLACK | A deadly epidemic of the bubonic plague in the 14th century (5,5) |
| DEATH | A deadly epidemic of the bubonic plague in the 14th century (5,5) |
| TURBAN | This headgear consists of a length of fabric wound around the head. It originated in the Old World, although Native Americans also originated a form. European men wore them for a time in the 14th cent |
| ELBRUS | Considered to be the highest mountain in Europe, in the Caucasus in SW Russia near the border with Georgia (6) |
| SHAKO | Tall cylindrical military hat with a peak and a front plume, popular in Europe in the 19th century (5) |
| GALLIARD | Dance in triple time for two people popular in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries (8) |
