| OTRANTO | Easternmost town of Italy; setting of a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole (7) |
| THECASTLE | 1764 novel by Horace Walpole (3,6,2,7) |
| OFOTRANTO | 1764 novel by Horace Walpole (3,6,2,7) |
| THECASTLEOFOTRANTO | 1764 novel by Horace Walpole |
| GIBBONS | Creator of the Carved Room at Petworth House and of a lime-wood cravat so realistic that its former owner Sir Horace Walpole wore it to greet visitors at Strawberry Hill (7) |
| CASSINO | W.W. II battle town of Italy |
| CASTLE | The ___ of Otranto gothic novel by Horace Walpole which tells the story of Manfred and his family |
| HOGARTH | William ___ (1697 - 1764), A London-born painter and engraver (7) |
| LATROBE | Benjamin Henry _ (1764- 1820) (7) |
| SERENDIPITY | Word, coined by Horace Walpole, for the faculty of making fortunate or happy discoveries by accident (11) |
| TIVOLI | Ancient town of Italy, with ruins of Hadrian's villa (6) |
| PADUA | University city in Veneto, NE Italy; setting for much of the William Shakespeare play The Taming of |
| GRAY | Poet who formed a "quadruple alliance" at Eton College with Horace Walpole and two other fellows and later penned a notable elegy in a country churchyard (4) |
| ASTI | Town of Italy |
| ATRI | Cathedral town of Italy |
| PALMBEACH | US resort, the easternmost town in Florida (4,5) |
| HERMITAGE | Museum of art and culture in St. Petersburg, founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great (9) |
| LOWESTOFT | Situated on the Suffolk coast, the UK's easternmost town, where Benjamin Britten was born in 1913 (9) |
| ANGOSTURA | The name, from 1764-1846, of the Venezuelan port Ciudad Bolivar (9) |
| SPINNINGJENNY | Labour-saving device invented by James Hargreaves in 1764 (8,5) |
