| GARRICK | David, an English actor and theatre manager born in 1717 (7) |
| DAVIDGARRICK | 18c English actor and theatre manager who died in 1779 (5,7) |
| TREE | Herbert Beerbohm, English actor and theatre manager who died in 1917 (4) |
| WATTEAU | A key figure in the Rococo art movement whose style of painting was categorised by the French Academy in 1717 as "fete galante" (7) |
| GIELGUD | British actor and theatre director, 1904-2000, who was knighted in 1953 (7) |
| SOLDENE | Emily ___, renowned 19th-century English singer, actress, theatre manager and, later, journalist (7) |
| UMBRIEL | Moon of Uranus discovered by English astronomer William Lassell in 1851 and named after a character in Alexander Pope's The Rape Of The Look (1717) |
| PROPMAN | Prince from European city welcomes play's first theatre manager (7) |
| VIVALDI | Which Baroque composer wrote the series of violin concertos The Four Seasons (1716-1717)? (7) |
| WARREN | Frank ......, English boxing promoter and manager born in London in 1952 (6) |
| BEAUMONT | Binkie ___, theatre producer and manager, born in 1908 (8) |
| YORATH | Terry, Welsh former midfielder and international manager born in 1950 (6) |
| BERRA | Yogi, U.S. baseball catcher and manager born in 1925 noted for his amusing malapropisms (5) |
| DOVER | The capital of Delaware is Dover. It was laid out in 1717, and it was named after a city in England. What's the name of that city? |
| DAVID | 18th-century English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer after whom a theatre on Charing Cross Road is named (5,7) |
| DARBY | Abraham ___, English iron manufacturer who died in 1717 (5) |
| CAPECODCANAL | What eventually replaced the function of Jeremiah's Gutter, created in Orleans in 1717 |
| HANDEL | George Frideric, German-born composer noted for his Water Music first played on a British royal cruise in 1717 (6) |
| ZIEGFELDFOLLIES | From 1907 these New York revues based on the Folies-Bergere were called after the theatre manager who produced them; in 1946 Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly danced together in the movie version (8,7) |
| WATERMUSIC | Collection of pieces by George Frideric Handel that premiered in 1717 (5,5) |
