| GUANTANAMO | Naval base established in 1903 |
| RHODES | Name of the oldest graduate scholarship in the world, established in 1903 (6) |
| PEDESTAL | Base established - cycle around it? |
| QUONGTART | Which Australian merchant and entrepreneur was born in China in 1850, died in 1903 and was active in |
| ORWELL | Author born Eric Arthur Blair in India in 1903 who described his vision of the future in Nineteen Eighty-Four (6) |
| HOTEL | Building offering accommodation, the first to open in Mallorca was the Grand (or Gran) in Palma in 1903 (5) |
| GAUGUIN | Paul, French post-Impressionist painter who died in French Polynesia in 1903 (7) |
| HEVER | - Castle; Anne Boleyn's childhood home, restored by William Waldorf Astor in 1903 at a cost equal to around £1 billion in today's terms (5) |
| MARIECURIE | The first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and the only woman to have won it twice (for Physics in 1903 and Chemistry in 1911) (5,5) |
| AMYJOHNSON | Pioneering English aviator born in Hull in 1903 (3,7) |
| WRIGHTBROTHERS | The ____ gained fame by travelling 120 feet in 12 seconds at Kill Devil Hills in 1903 |
| COTOPAXI | Volcanic peak in Ecuador noted for a major eruption in 1903 (8) |
| TWOLITTLEBOYS | Song first released in 1903, a cover of which became a UK No.1 for Rolf Harris in 1969/70 (3,6,4) |
| HARLEYDAVIDSON | American motorcycle manufacturer founded in 1903 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (6-8) |
| HEPWORTH | Barbara, artist and sculptor born in Wakefield in 1903 (8) |
| TOUR | --- de France, bicycle race first held in 1903 (4) |
| SYDNEY | First NSW Football Association premiers, in 1903, East ... (6) |
| SPOCK | Benjamin, American paediatrician born in 1903 (5) |
| BALATA | Ball cover first used in 1903 (6) |
| AMY | - Johnson, pioneering English aviator born in 1903 (3) |
