| BRONXZOO | New York menagerie that opened in 1899 (5,3) |
| METROTORONTOZOO | Big Ontario menagerie that opened in 1974 |
| ALLSORTS | Liquorice ---, sweets originally created by Geo. Bassett & Co in 1899 (8) |
| SPARTANS | Blyth ____, football team from Northumberland founded in 1899 (8) |
| GADZOOKS | Menagerie in Denmark engulfed by fumes ___ crikey! (8) |
| ZUCCHINI | Reportedly menagerie feature in Channel Islands provides growth for American |
| ZOOCYTIA | Menagerie a city rebuilt to provide protection for many small creatures |
| MARMOSET | Head of menagerie, maestro trained monkey |
| AQUARIUM | Marine menagerie |
| ASPIRIN | A painkiller usually taken in tablet form that was clinically introduced in 1899 (7) |
| UNCLEVANYA | Play by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov that premiered in Moscow in 1899 (5,5) |
| NABOKOV | Vladimir, U.S. writer born in St Petersburg in Russia in 1899 (7) |
| FIAT | Auto that debuted in 1899 |
| BOWNN | Novelist and short story writer born in Dublin in 1899 who wrote The Last September, The Death of th |
| NAIROBI | Capital of Kenya, founded in 1899; it became the capital in 1905 (7) |
| RENAULT | Old-established French motor company, founded in 1899 and nationalized in 1945 but still going strong (7) |
| ACMILAN | Usual English name for the football club founded by Englishmen Herbert Kilpin and Alfred Edwards in Italy in 1899 |
| HEARTOFDARKNESS | Novella by Joseph Conrad published as a three-part series in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899 |
| GUSTAV | And 1 Austrian painter whose portraits include that of Serena Pulitzer Lederer in 1899 (6,5) |
| PHILIPPINES | South-east Asian country which rebelled against Spanish rule in 1896 and against the US, to whom the country had been ceded, in 1899 (11) |
