| ROSETTASTONE | Key discovery of 1799 |
| THEROSETTASTONE | Discovery of 1799 in Egypt |
| ROSETTA | Site of a key discovery in Egyptology |
| FIEND | Ogre makes key discovery outside |
| UNIONS | The Combination Acts of 1799 and 1800 made what trade organisations illegal in Britain? (6) |
| PARTHENOPEANREPUBLIC | What was the transitory Republic of Naples established with the aid of the French in 1799 but overth |
| SCHILLER | German author of the Wallenstein trilogy of plays, completed in 1799 (8) |
| REIGNOFTERROR | Period of Jacobin rule during the French Revolution (1789-1799) that saw thousands of people sent to the guillotine (5,2,6) |
| HIEROGLYPHICS | The discovery of a stone in 1799 by troops in Napoleon's army made it possible to decipher which script? (13) |
| TANTRA | Type of Hindu religious book, 1799. |
| STONE | Inscribed basalt slab (found 1799), key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs (7,5) |
| BRONTE | King Ferdinand made Horatio Nelson 1st duke of this Sicilian town in 1799 (6) |
| GOYA | Artist who became court painter to Charles IV of Spain in 1799 (4) |
| LOSCAPRICHOS | Set of eighty Goya prints, published as an album in 1799 (3,9) |
| HOOD | Thomas ___ (1799 - 1845), London-born poet, best known for The Bridge of Sighs (4) |
| DOVECOTTAGE | Home of 27A and her brother from 1799 to 1808 |
| LUTINE | Ship sunk in 1799 from which a bell was salvaged and hung in Lloyd's of London (6) |
| GRASMERE | Cumbria village at the centre of the Lake District in which William and Dorothy Wordsworth lived from 1799 (8) |
| STORER | Anthony Morris ___, 1746-1799, English politician and man of fashion; or, one who stockpiles (6) |
| BALZAC | French novelist (1799-1850) |
