| THRELKELD | Lake District village; Caleb , Irish botanist (1676-1728) (9) |
| TIDESWELL | Movement of the sea to get larger in Peak District village (9) |
| GRASMERE | Lawn cut by waters in Lake District village (8) |
| CONISTON | I'd leave poor conditions in this Lake District village (8) |
| STAVELEY | Scenic Lake District village a few miles from Kendal (8) |
| RYDAL | Lake District village, final home of Wordsworth (5) |
| HATHERSAGE | Woman's wise to go beyond Derby, say, for Peak District village (10) |
| EDALE | Peak District village - partly bagged a leney (5) |
| ILAM | Peak District village mail organisation (4) |
| MONYASH | Peak District village - a hymn so different (7) |
| VERMEER | Dutch painter, Jan, d. 1676 (7) |
| ROBERTWALPOLE | Sir -- --, 1st Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, first British Prime Minister (6,7) |
| WALPOLE | Robert, Britain's first prime minister born in 1676 (7) |
| THETOWNFOP | 1676 play by Aphra Behn subtitled Sir Timothy Tawdrey |
| OLIVERGOLDSMITH | Anglo-Irish novelist and dramatist born in 1728 noted for his novel The Vicar Of Wakefield (6,9) |
| BACONS | __ Rebellion (1676 Virginia uprising) |
| SHABBETHILEVI | Sephardic rabbi from Smyrna who claimed to be the long-awaited Jewish Messiah (1626-1676) |
| LIGHT | Electromagnetic radiation whose velocity was first established when Ole Romer measured it in 1676 (5) |
| SELKIRK | Alexander ___ (1676-1721), Scottish sailor said to have inspired Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719) (7) |
| BACONSREBELLION | 1676 Virginia uprising |
