| WYCHERLEY | English dramatist (1641-1716), best known for The Country Wife |
| GRANDREMONSTRANCE | List of grievances presented to Charles the First by the English Parliament on December 1 1641 which partly precipitated the English Civil War (5,12) |
| ANDREWFLETCHER | The leader of the anti-union Country Party (1653 - 1716) |
| THORNHILL | English artist who painted the Hall ceiling of Blenheim Palace in 1716 (9) |
| WETLAND | Fen country wife has dental treatment? (7) |
| RWANDA | Country wife with artist outside (6) |
| GRAY | Thomas -- (1716-71), London-born poet who wrote the Elegy in a Country Churchyard (4) |
| AUCHTERARDER | Town near Perth which was burnt down in 1716 by the Earl of Mar's Jacobites after the battle of Sheriffmuir in 1715 (12) |
| VANDYCK | Painter who founded the English school of portraiture and died in London in 1641 (3,4) |
| DOGGETT | Thomas, Irish actor who founding a sculling prize in 1716 which is still competed for on the River Thames on August 1 (7) |
| STARCHAMBER | English court of law abolished in 1641 (4,7) |
| STAR | ___ Chamber, Privy Council abolished in 1641 that was powerful under the Tudor monarchs (4) |
| WALES | Country wife gets beers |
| VANDYKE | Flemish portrait painter, who settled at the court of Charles I in 1632, d. 1641 (3,4) |
| OMSK | Russian city and stronghold, founded in 1716 (4) |
| CAPABILITY | ___ Brown, gardener and landscape architect, born in 1716 (10) |
| ALAMO | Franciscan mission built around 1716 |
| LEIBNIZ | German philosopher (1646-1716) |
| RISINGSUN | The Land of the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, term for Japan that derives from the Japanese word for the country (6,3) |
| VIETNAM | Days of the war originally meant for the country (7) |
