| YPRES | City in 1917 headlines |
| LENIN | Surname in 1917 headlines |
| HEIFETZ | Jascha ?, Vilnius-born violinist who debuted at Carnegie Hall, New York City in 1917 (7) |
| PERCIVALMOLSON | ___ ___ Memorial Stadium (Montreal Alouettes home field named in honour of the Canadian brewing family scion who was the St. Louis 1904 Olympian killed in WWI action in France in 1917) |
| IMO | In 1917, in Halifax Harbour, which Norwegian relief ship collided with a French munition vessel, Mont-Blanc, causing an explosion which levelled a district in the city? (3) |
| SOMME | Effective at Cambrai in 1917, the tank had made its first battle appearance in which battle in September 1916? (5) |
| LIONS | Which club, launched in Dallas in 1917, is now in over 180 countries? (5) |
| OCTOBERREVOLUTION | Uprising in Russia in 1917 (7,10) |
| DESTIJL | Dutch art movement founded in Leiden in 1917 |
| NHL | Pro sports organization founded in Canada in 1917: Abbr. |
| CHEQUERS | Estate in the Chilterns bequeathed to the nation by Sir Arthur Lee in 1917, used as the country hous |
| REVOLUTION | Century defining event that began in St Petersburg in 1917 (7,10) |
| RUSSIAN | Century defining event that began in St Petersburg in 1917 (7,10) |
| ALLENBY | General appointed C-in-C of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in 1917 |
| SCARFACE | Nickname of US gangster Al Capone, deriving from knife wounds received in a barfight in 1917 (8) |
| DUMA | Russian elective legislative assembly established by Tsar Nicholas II in 1905 that was overthrown by the Bolsheviks in 1917 |
| EDD | Roush who led the National League in hitting in 1917 and 1919 |
| MATAHARI | What was the nickname of the Dutch dancer and secret agent executed in France in 1917? (4,4) |
| PSKOV | Russian city on the River Velikaya, scene of the abdication in 1917 of Nicholas II (5) |
| AQABA | City taken by Arab forces, led by Lawrence of Arabia, in 1917 (5) |
