| SARABAND | A slow stately Spanish dance, of the 17th and 18th centuries |
| MINUET | Stately court dance of the 17th and 18th Centuries in triple time (6) |
| GAVOTTE | Court dance of the 17th and 18th centuries |
| CHACONNE | Slow, stately Spanish dance in triple time, originating in the Baroque era |
| PAVANE | From the Spanish for "peacock", a slow stately dance evocative of the courtly swishing of said fowl's train (6) |
| PEAFOWL | Large male or female crested pheasant whose ostentatious vain display is depicted in a slow stately dance aptly called the pavane (7) |
| SARABANDE | Stately Spanish dance |
| MUSETTE | French bagpipe popular in court circles of the 17th and 18th centuries; a gavotte or pastoral air with a drone bass suggestive of said shepherd's pipe; or, a dance to such a melody (7) |
| BAROQUE | Art and music style of the 17th and 18th centuries (7) |
| HALLEY | Edmund _, English astronomer of the 17th and 18th centuries (6) |
| STRADIVARIUS | Any of a number of violins manufactured by a famous family in Cremona in the 17th and 18th centuries (12) |
| TOWER | Structure such as a turret or a campanile; coiffure worn as a fontange in the 17th and 18th centuries; or, a tarot trump card (5) |
| BARBARYCOAST | Name given to an area of the Mediterranean which was a hotbed of piracy in the 17th and 18th centuries (7,5) |
| PERIWIG | A type of hairpiece fashionable in the 17th and 18th centuries, also called a peruke (7) |
| FOOTPAD | In the 17th and 18th centuries, a highwayman who didn't use a horse (7) |
| PERUKE | A type of wig for men. fashionable in the 17th and 18th centuries (6) |
| OMBRE | Trick-taking Spanish card game played with a 40-card deck, popular in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries (5) |
| MONTERO | Round cap with a flap at the back worn by hunters, especially in Spain in the 17th and 18th centuries (7) |
| PENAL | The _____ Laws were anti-Catholic measures imposed in Ireland in the 17th and 18th Centuries. (5) |
| DEISM | Rational belief in God based on reason rather than revelation, prevalent in England and elsewhere in the 17th and 18th centuries (5) |