| BOHME | German mystic: 1575-1624 |
| ECKHART | 13th/14th-century German mystic |
| BOEMM | German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy. |
| RENI | Bolognese artist: 1575-1642 |
| TITIAN | Venetian old master, d. 1575 (6) |
| IVAN | ___ Grozny, tsar 1547-1575 (4) |
| LEIDEN | Dutch city (pop about 125,000), with a university founded in 1575 (6) |
| PEAR | Depicted on the coat of arms of Worcester after an augmentation granted by Elizabeth I in 1575, fruit trained as an espalier or over an arch with roses (4) |
| JOSEPHKARO | Author of the Shulchan Aruch, the great codification of Jewish law (1488-1575) |
| SPAMALOT | Medieval Monty Python musical comedy which had 1575 performances on Broadway (8) |
| OSLO | City destroyed by fire in 1624 |
| NEWAMSTERDAM | Dutch settlement of 1624 |
| ADO | Fuss to a poet of 1624 |
| CHRISTIANIA | Former name of Oslo from 1624-1877 (11) |
| RICHELIEU | Cardinal ?, chief minister of Louis XIII of France from 1624-42 |
| NOMAN | "___ ___ is an island entire of itself": quote from John Donne's 1624 poem Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (2,3) |
| CRICKETBAT | Item of sports equipment, first mentioned in 1624 (7,3) |
| NOMANIS | Famous aphorism by English poet John Donne, in the 17th devotion, Meditation XVII, of the 1624 prose work Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (2,3,2,2,6) |
| ANISLAND | Famous aphorism by English poet John Donne, in the 17th devotion, Meditation XVII, of the 1624 prose work Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (2,3,2,2,6) |
| STKITTS | Site of the first British colony in the Caribbean, 1624 |
