| NELLGWYN | Actress and mistress of Charles II who died in 1687 |
| NELL | Actress and mistress of Charles II who died in 1687 (4,4) |
| BRAGANZA | Catherine of -; wife of Charles II who popularised tea drinking in England (8) |
| GWYN | Nell ---, actress and mistress of Charles II |
| THISTLE | Order of the ___ , Scottish order of knighthood instituted by James II and VII in 1687 (7) |
| NEWTON | Surname of the compiler of the three laws of motion published in 1687 (6) |
| LANGTRY | Actress, socialite and mistress of Edward VII, Lily _ (7) |
| AGNES | Forename of the "Lady of Beauty" of the Chateau de Loches who was a mistress of Charles VII and first official favourite of a French king (5) |
| ASPASIA | Greek courtesan and mistress of Pericles (7) |
| ISAACNEWTON | English mathematician and physicist whose principal work, the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, was published in 1687 (5,6) |
| EMMA | Mistress of Charles II; ... Hamilton (4) |
| BUZZBEURLING | Highly decorated Canadian fighter pilot of Word War II who died mysteriously in a plane crash at age |
| LELY | Principal court painter to Charles II who created the Windsor Beauties (4) |
| DRYDEN | Writer of the 1687 poem The Hind and the Panther (6) |
| LOVEINTERESTS | Wife and mistress perhaps have deep affections for arts and crafts (4,9) |
| RHODES | Journeyed to catch husband and mistress finally in Greek city (6) |
| NURSE | ' The priest continues what the ___ began' (John Dryden The Hind and the Panther (1687) |
| BLOWOVER | Bishop and mistress (with nothing being admitted!) fade away |
| ISSUE | Setter and mistress finally take legal action against the children (5) |
| MALADY | The master and mistress got the sickness (6) |
