| TOMPION | Born in Bedfordshire in 1639, a blacksmith's son who established himself as one of the foremost English clockmakers and horologists (7) |
| TOWTON | The Battle of ___ in the Wars of the Roses in March, 1461 was the largest battle ever fought in Engl |
| TURNER | Oil painter and watercolourist noted for treatment of light in works such as East Cowes Castle, Engl |
| LINEKER | Gary -, Engl. footballer |
| ROLES | Errol established himself with these parts |
| EZEKIEL | Poet and novelist considered one of the foremost Indian writers in English of his time, Nissim ... |
| RAGTIME | Scott Joplin was one of the foremost exponents of what style of music? (7) |
| OLDS | Blacksmith's son who set up a car manufacturer in 1901 named after himself, closed by GM in 2004 (4) |
| HEPWORTH | Who (Dame Barbara _) was one of the foremost sculptors of her time? (8) |
| CROMWELL | Blacksmith's son who served as Cardinal Wolsey's lawyer, later obtaining office as master of the king's jewel house and Henry VIII's principal secretary and adviser (8) |
| SATIRIST | Anglo-Irish author Jonathan Swift is considered one of the foremost writers of this kind (8) |
| LAROUSSE | Blacksmith's son who published of a number of works including Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siecle (8) |
| ALMANAC | The first one printed in America was in 1639 |
| OLDDELHI | Walled city in India founded as Shahjahanabad by Mughal Emperor Shahjahan in 1639 |
| HEPHAESTUS | With the Roman equivalent Vulcan, Greek god of fire, craftsmen and blacksmiths, son of Zeus and Hera (10) |
| YEAST | All those in favour of the foremost agent behind The Rising (5) |
| ROSSINI | Town trumpeter's son, apprenticed to a blacksmith as a child, who later wrote 39 operas including The Barber of Seville (7) |
| VULCAN | Name of a Roman god of fire and the forge, hence a literary name for a blacksmith or ironworker (6) |
| EMMA | Preferred forename of Amy Lyon, a blacksmith's daughter who became Lady Hamilton, lover of Lord Nelson and muse of George Romney (4) |
| LONGFELLOW | Poet who wrote about a blacksmith, an Ojibwe warrior named Hiawatha and the wreck of the Hesperus (10) |
