| BOONE | Battle of Blue Licks fighter, 1782 |
| RODNEY | George ?, British admiral; victor over the French in the Battle of the Saintes of 1782 |
| JOHNFIELD | Irish composer (1782-1837), pioneer of the Romantic style of piano music, especially nocturnes |
| PURPLEHEART | Decoration for members of the US armed forces wounded or killed in action, established as the Badge of Military Merit in 1782 (6,5) |
| CYANIDE | Toxic chemical compound first isolated from Prussian blue in 1782 and present in high quantities in the stones and seeds of fruits such as apples, apricots and peaches (7) |
| NORTH | Lord , prime minister of Great Britain 1770-1782 (5) |
| ROCKINGHAM | The Marquess of ---, Whig Prime Minister 1765-1766 and 1782 (10) |
| HOME | Major governmental department of the UK, brought into being in 1782 (4,6) |
| OFFICE | Major governmental department of the UK, brought into being in 1782 (4,6) |
| NAPIER | General Sir Charles James ___ (1782-1853), Commander-inChief of India from 1848 to 1849 (6) |
| LORDNORTH | Prime minister of Great Britain from 1770 to 1782 (4,5) |
| BALDEAGLE | This bird may have numbered in the hundreds of thousands when it was declared the American national bird in 1782, but its numbers steadily declined over the next two centuries, owing primarily to huma |
| SHELBURNE | William Petty, 2nd Earl of ---, British prime minister 1782-83 (9) |
| VANBUREN | Martin, U.S. president of Dutch descent born in 1782 and nicknamed The Little Magician (3,5) |
| JOHNGILPIN | Draper who was the subject of a 1782 comic ballad by William Cowper |
| SERAGLIO | The Abduction from the --------, Mozart opera (1782) (8) |
| ROSINA | Comic opera (1782) by William Shield (6) |
| ETONIAN | Wellington, circa 1782 |
| CONSTANZEWEBER | Mozart's bride in 1782 |
| PAGANINI | Niccolo _, Italian violinist and composer (1782 - 1840) |
