| OLIVERCROMWELL | Lord Protector of the Commonwealth from 1653 to 1658 (6,8) |
| CROMWELL | Oliver, British lord protector of the Commonwealth from 1653 to 1658 (8) |
| OLIVER | --- Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland 1653-8 (6) |
| CROMWELLIAN | Relating to Lord Protector of the Commonwealth (11) |
| PAPUANEWGUINEA | Country in the southwest Pacific Ocean; an independent member of the Commonwealth (5,3,6) |
| AGRA | Capital of the Mughal emperors from 1526 to 1658 (4) |
| BRODIE | Israel ****** , Chief Rabbi of the UK and The Commonwealth from 1948 to 1965 (1895-1979) (6) |
| ORLEANS | Duc d' -; title upon the death of his uncle Gaston of Philippe I who was the younger brother of the Sun King and bought Chateau de Saint- Cloud for 240,000 livres in 1658(7) |
| DEWITT | Jan, chief minister of the United Provinces of the Netherlands from 1653-72 (2,4) |
| VERMEER | Rediscovered almost 200 years after his death, who is now considered one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age, with works including The Milkmaid (c. 1658)? (7) |
| AURANGZEB | Sixth of the 20 Mughal emperors of India (1658-1707), son and successor of Shah Jahan (9) |
| CLARENDON | Earl of -, title created in 1661 for Edward Hyde, Lord Chancellor from 1658-67 |
| SCOTLAND | Patricia ---, Baroness who is the current Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations (8) |
| DANISH | Relating to a country in northern Europe (1658 sq miles; pop 6 million), a member of the EU since 1973) (6) |
| MALMO | Swedish port on the Sound that was part of Denmark until 1658 |
| KENYA | African country that's a member of the Commonwealth of Nations |
| GRENVILLE | Kate ___, 2006 winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for novel The Secret River (9) |
| REPUBLICAN | One of the commonwealth about the bar owner (10) |
| DOLLAR | New Zealand ____, the official currency of the Commonwealth country and its territories (6) |
| PARANOID | Black Sabbath's big hit, played at the closing of the Commonwealth Games (8) |
