| BRADSHAW | George ___ (1800-53), printer who gave his name to a series of railway guides (8) |
| BANCROFT | George ___(1800-91), often referred to as the 'Father of American History' (8) |
| TRAIN | A series of railway carriages; a camel caravan ; or, a cascade of material at the back of gown (5) |
| WOHLER | Friedrich ___ (1800-82), German chemist who was the first to isolate aluminium and to synthesise urea, in 1827-8 (6) |
| MARENGO | Battle of ___, 1800 conflict near Alessandria, Italy, in which France defeated Austria (7) |
| BAEDEKER | Karl ---, 19th Century German publisher who gave his name to a series of travel guidebooks (8) |
| FLOTILLA | Briefly run up to a series of boats |
| EALING | Which London suburb gave its name to a series of comedy films made there in the 40s and 50s? (6) |
| ROSES | Which flowers gave their name to a series of 15th-century English civil conflicts? (5) |
| ARCADE | This word refers to a gallery or building that is arched or to a series of arches. Strictly speaking, it came to English from Italian by way of French; the Italian, in turn, came from the Latin arcus. |
| ROAST | Comedy event in which a guest of honour is subjected to a series of jokes at their expense (5) |
| DOMINOEFFECT | Part of the game leads to repercussions and what amounts to a series of chain reactions (6,6) |
| APOLLO | Name given to a series of manned US spacecraft designed to explore the moon and surrounding space |
| ADRIAN | Forename of the angst-ridden diarist central to a series of books penned by Sue Townsend (6) |
| FIBONACCI | Mathematician giving name to a series |
| RUBBER | Able to be stretched in to a series of games (6) |
| DRAMA | Drop of whisky leading to a series of exciting events |
| CLIMACTIC | Acting as a culmination to a series of events (9) |
| REICH | The name given to a series of German regimes (5) |
| ROYALMILE | Name given to a series of streets in Edinburgh (5,4) |
