| JAMESTOWN | British settlement established in Virginia in 1607 (9) |
| NEWAMSTERDAM | Settlement established in 1624 by the Dutch |
| UNRIVALED | Peerless democrat rule in Virginia in trouble (9) |
| YORKTOWN | Battle in Virginia in War of American Independence (8) |
| LYNCH | The surname of which JP, who dealt out rough justice in Virginia in the 1780s, became part of the language? (5) |
| LONDINIUM | Roman settlement established around AD48 |
| ARLINGTON | County on the Potomac River in northern Virginia in which the Pentagon is located (9) |
| AGGRAVATE | Inflame Virginia in Silver Grill (9) |
| VANDALISE | Did Lies and Virginia, in short, turn up to damage property? (9) |
| GRIEVANCE | Virginia in complicated generic complaint (9) |
| EARLS | In 1607 they fled opposing sides in stormy sea (5) |
| TEENWOOLF | 1985 fantasy comedy about author Virginia in her high school days? |
| ORFEO | Monteverdi opera produced in 1607 (5) |
| OPERA | Monteverdi's Orpheo, composed in 1607, is the earliest of this theatrical form of music that is stil |
| MONTEVERDI | Italian composer and Roman Catholic priest who wrote one of the earliest operas, L'Orfeo, in 1607 (10) |
| PARRAMATTA | City in New South Wales which was the second British settlement in Australia (10) |
| COLONY | French or British settlement in Canada's early history |
| SYDNEY | Largest city in Australia, a seaport and first British settlement (6) |
| BASEL | Settlement established by large part of Switzerland (5) |
| STHELENA | The lanes winding round an isolated British settlement (2,6) |
