| MARQUISDESADE | French writer 1740-1814, who wrote works of sexual fantasy (7,2,4) |
| JOSEPHUS | Flavius ******** , priest and historian who wrote works on the Jewish revolt of 66-70 CE (8) |
| DESADE | Marquis ___ (1740-1814), notorious nobleman, libertine and author (2,4) |
| CARYOPHYLLACEAE | Joyce who wrote: "Work hard, raise a City partner and point to a growing family" (15) |
| NESTLE | Henri _ _ _ _ _ _, GermanSwiss confectioner born in 1814 who founded a company producing formula milk (6) |
| SAMUELCOLT | U.S. firearms inventor born in 1814 who popularised the revolver (6,4) |
| RULEBRITANNIA | Song of 1740 composed by Thomas Arne |
| CAMILLEPAGLIA | Feminist author of Sexual Personae, published in 1990 |
| LEPEW | Pepe ___ (character who was accused of sexual harassment in "Pride or Prejudice? Exploring Issues of Queerness, Speciesism, and Disability in Warner Bros. Looney Tunes") |
| INSIGHT | Sort of stand nailing the onset of sexual knowledge (7) |
| LOVEISLOVE | Repetitive phrase affirming the equal dignity of all relationships regardless of sexual orientation |
| PREPUBESCENT | Of an age immediately before the onset of sexual maturity (12) |
| NANGOLDIN | American photographer whose works include The Ballad of Sexual Dependency |
| AMATI | Name of a family of Italian violin makers active in Cremona from about 1549 to 1740 |
| BACH | King of Poland's composer (c. 1740) |
| SAMUEL | English writer best known for his epistolary novels, including Pamela (1740) |
| RICHARDSON | English writer best known for his epistolary novels, including Pamela (1740) |
| IVANVI | Infant who succeeded Russia's Empress Anna in 1740 |
| ARNE | Thomas -; composer of the music to Rule, Britannia which debuted at Cliveden in 1740 (4) |
| MARIATHERESA | Female ruler of the Habsburg dominions in her own right 1740-80 (5,7) |
