| TASMAN | Abel _, 17th-century Dutch navigator whose discoveries included New Zealand (6) |
| ABELTASMAN | 17th-century Dutch navigator; the first European to reach New Zealand (4,6) |
| PRANCE | Wild caper included new jig |
| RACINE | Jean ___, 17th-century French poet and dramatist whose plays include Andromaque and Phedre |
| MILTON | John _, 17th-century English poet famed for writing Paradise Lost (6) |
| PASCAL | Blaise ___, 17th-century mathematician and philosopher who developed the theory of probability with Pierre de Fermat (6) |
| DRYDEN | John ___, 17th-century poet and critic (6) |
| JONSON | Ben ___, 17th-century playwright (6) |
| ABEL | - Tasman, 17th century Dutch navigator (4) |
| BLAISE | Pascal ___ (17th-century French mathematician) |
| TANZANIA | Tania included New Zealand with a country in Africa (8) |
| MAES | Nicolaes ___ (17th-century Dutch painter and student of Rembrandt) |
| VERMEER | Johannes _, 17th-century Dutch artist who painted Girl with A Pearl Earring (7) |
| TUI | Intuitively included New Zealand bird (3) |
| STEEN | Jan ___ (17th-century Dutch painter) |
| FRANCISBACON | English philosopher, statesman and author knighted in 1603, whose works included New Atlantis (7,5) |
| HUDSONBAY | Inland sea in Canada named after an English navigator whose crew mutinied and cast him adrift to die (6,3) |
| PASTEUR | French scientist whose discoveries revolutionised the dairy industry. (7) |
| VESPUCCI | Italian navigator whose forename is said to be the origin of "America" |
| WTC | Complex which included New York's Twin Towers. (1,1,1) |
