| CASANOVA | Giacomo -, 18thcentury Italian adventurer noted for the memoir Histoire de ma vie (8) |
| BRINDLEY | James -, 18thcentury British canal builder associated with the Grand Cross scheme (8) |
| FRANKLIN | Benjamin -, 18thcentury American statesman and scientist whose inventions include a lightning rod (8) |
| EULER | Leonhard -, 18thcentury mathematician noted for his work on the calculus of variation (5) |
| BLAS | "Histoire de Gil ___ de Santillane" |
| BABAR | "Histoire de ___," first in a popular series of children's books |
| ARNE | Thomas -, 18thcentury English composer noted for his setting of Shakespearean songs (4) |
| UNE | "___ Histoire de Plage" (Brigitte Bardot song) |
| LALANDE | Surname of the French astronomer who, in his Histoire Celeste, catalogued the positions of about 50,000 stars (7) |
| BUFFON | French naturalist and palaeontologist founder who produced the 36-volume quarto volumes Histoire Nat |
| GILBERT | First name of Reverend White of Selborne, Hampshire, an 18thcentury pioneering naturalist (7) |
| ORMOLU | What gold-coloured alloy was a popular decoration on 18thcentury French furniture? (6) |
| HUME | David -, 18thcentury Scottish philosopher whose works include A Treatise of Human Nature (4) |
| MOIDORE | Portuguese gold coin current in early 18thcentury England worth about 27 shillings (7) |
| MASHAM | Lady Damaris Cudworth ___, 17th/18thcentury philosopher and early feminist (6) |
| TANTE | "La Plume de Ma ___" |
| FEATHER | English plume (de ma tante?) (7) |
| RASPE | Rudolf Erich ___ (18thcentury writer of baron Munchausen tales) |
| TIA | Hermana de mama |
| ESTAS | "___ de mas" (are too much) |
