| VANBUREN | Martin --- ---, 8th President of the United States (3,5) |
| MARTINVANBUREN | The 8th president of the United States |
| MCALEESE | The eighth President (8) |
| TALON | Patrice _ , 8th president of Benin since 2016 (5) |
| BUREN | Martin Van __ (8th president) |
| NRA | Ulysses S. Grant was its eighth president: Abbr. |
| ALMANSUR | In the mid-8th century, who founded the Baghdad library and translation centre known as the House of |
| KINGLEAR | Legendary ruler of the Britons of 8th cent. BC |
| OLDSAXON | Germanic language of the 8th-12th centuries |
| BONIFACE | 8th Century Christian missionary who became the patron saint of Germany (8) |
| LONGLEAT | Elizabethan house in Wiltshire occupied by the 8th Marquess of Bath (8) |
| MORTIMER | Roger de --, c1287-1330, 8th Baron of Wigmore and 1st Earl of March (8) |
| ELECTION | Coverage on it will dominate the news on Tuesday, November 8th, 2016 |
| HEZEKIAH | King of Judah in late 8th century BC (8) |
| ERLANGEN | Bavarian city (pop about 115,000) founded in the 8th century (8) |
| THECARRY | Again try to reach tricky 8th at Woodbridge (3,5) |
| DUNROBIN | Upset bin round Royal Dornoch's 8th hole (8) |
| PAPALSTATES | Those territories of central Italy held by the Catholic Church between the middle of the 8th century and 1870 (5,6) |
| YEREVAN | Inhabited since the 8th century and known as the "Pink City", the capital of Armenia with a population of approximately one million (7) |
| TENNO | Formal title of the emperor of Japan ('heavenly emperor'), used from the 8th century in place of mikado (5) |
