| REMBRANDT | Dutch artist (1606 - 69), who painted The Nightwatch (1642 (9) |
| EARLWARREN | Chief justice of the United States 1953-69, who led the commission that investigated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (4,6) |
| PHYSICIAN | 'More needs she the divine than the ___,' Shakespeare, Macbeth (1606) |
| GUYFAWKES | Notorious member of the 1606 Gunpowder Plot to blow up King James I and the Houses of Parliament (3,6) |
| CORNEILLE | Pierre --, French dramatist (1606-84) (9) |
| DUNSINANE | Hill of central Scotland to which 'Great Birnam wood' came in Shakespeare's Macbeth (1606) |
| RICHELIEU | Cardinal ___, 1585-1642, French prelate and statesman (9) |
| GOLDENBAY | Area which Abel Tasman called Murderer's Bay after his visit in 1642 (6,3) |
| ALLS | "___well": nightwatch call |
| VIGIL | All-nightwatch (5) |
| NOLTE | Nick of "Nightwatch" |
| LEIDEN | Dutch city that was the birthplace of Rembrandt in 1606 (6) |
| VAASA | Provisional capital of Finland during the Finnish Civil War ( 1918), founded by the Swedish king Charles IX in 1606 ( 5) |
| MALCOLM | Elder son of the murdered King Duncan in Shakespeare's Macbeth (1606) |
| BELL | 'The ___ invites me' (Shakespeare, Macbeth (1606) |
| AROINT | '___ thee, witch!' the rump-fed ronyon cries' (Shakespeare Macbeth (1606)) (6) |
| SIRFRANCISBACON | Knight who was appointed England's Lord Chancellor on 10 May 1606 |
| PIERRECORNEILLE | French tragedian (1606-84) (6,9) |
| FLEANCE | Son of Banquo in the 1606 Shakespeare tragedy Macbeth (7) |
| VOLPONE | 1606 comedy by English playwright Ben Jonson whose name is Italian for 'the fox' (7) |
