| FETTES | Independent school in Edinburgh founded in 1870 (6) |
| REPTON | Independent school in Derbyshire attended by Jeremy Clarkson (6) |
| AMSTEL | Brewery founded in 1870 |
| DOLLAR | Small town in central Scotland (pop about 3,000), with an independent school founded in 1818 (6) |
| LOYOLA | Private university in Chicago founded by Jesuits in 1870 (6) |
| BELLOC | Hilaire, British poet born in France in 1870 (6) |
| JERSEY | Island where railway opened in 1870 connecting St Helier and St Aubin, and closed in 1936 (6) |
| STATES | The temporal domain of the popes in central Italy from 756 until the unification of Italy in 1870 (6) |
| BARUCH | ****** College, institution in New York named after a financier born in 1870 (6) |
| LAUDER | Harry ___, Scottish singer and comedian born in 1870 (6) |
| STOWE | An independent school in southern England, founded in 1923 (5) |
| BEDALES | Independent school in Hampshire that was founded in 1893 (7) |
| DOWNSIDE | Catholic independent school in Somerset founded by Benedictine monks in 1617 (8) |
| EPSOM | ____ College, independent school in Surrey founded in 1853 (5) |
| PERSE | The ____, independent school in Cambridge founded in 1615 (5) |
| VARDON | Harry, British golfer born in 1870 who won the British Open a record six times (6) |
| DENSTONE | ____ College, independent school in Staffordshire that opened in 1873 (8) |
| BRITISHREDCROSS | Charity founded in 1870 in the aftermath of the Crimean War (7,3,5) |
| KEBLE | Oxford college founded in 1870 (5) |
| MITSUBISHI | Japanese company founded in 1870, whose name means 'three diamonds' (10) |
