| BUBBLE | Financial crash that occurred in 1720 (5,3,6) |
| SOUTHSEA | Financial crash that occurred in 1720 (5,3,6) |
| SOUTHSEABUBBLE | Financial crash in 1720 (5,3,6) |
| GREATFIRE | Short name of a major disaster that occurred in London in 1666 (5,4) |
| ARCHAEOPTERYX | Genus of extinct primitive birds that occurred in Jurassic times (13) |
| EVENT | Something that occurred in regular time |
| REUNIFICATION | Act that occurred in Germany on October 3, 1990 (13) |
| TIENTSIN | Relief of ____, battle of the Boxer Rebellion that occurred in July 1900 (8) |
| RACERIOT | One of more than 150 that occurred in the US during the summer of 1967 |
| GARDENSTOWN | Small coastal village in the north-east, founded as a fishing port in 1720 (11) |
| CALICOJACK | English pirate captain born John Rackham executed in Port Royal, Jamaica, in 1720 (6,4) |
| PIRACY | Anne Bonny and Mary Read were tried and convicted for this crime in Jamaica in 1720 (6) |
| EDMONDHALLEY | Astronomer Royal who succeeded John Flamsteed in 1720 |
| PIRANESI | Italian draftsman and printmaker born in 1720 (8) |
| SHIVERMETIMBERS | Irish member vets bogus oath (spoken in 1720, perhaps) (6,2,7) |
| KING | She was the driver in the tragic car crash that cost Heath Hope his life in Emmerdale (8,4) |
| ANGELICA | She was the driver in the tragic car crash that cost Heath Hope his life in Emmerdale (8,4) |
| RUIN | Bear losing capital in financial crash |
| DEPRECIATION | It never goes up in financial crash (12) |
| LOVEAFFAIR | Delight in that business that occurred between the Roman general and the Egyptian ruler? |
