| TURNIP | Nickname of an 18th-century Whig statesman, an enthusiastic advocate of a certain vegetable in crop rotation (6,9) |
| TOWNSHEND | Nickname of an 18th-century Whig statesman, an enthusiastic advocate of a certain vegetable in crop rotation (6,9) |
| ADAMS | Samuel ___ (1722-1803), US statesman; an instigator of the Boston Tea Party and one of the 56 signatories of the Declaration of Independence (5) |
| EVANGELIST | Enthusiastic advocate |
| KITCATCLUB | Early 18th-century Whig organisation whose members included Robert Walpole and John Vanbrugh (3-3,4) |
| KITCAT | - Club, 18th-century Whig association |
| PEAGREEN | Shade of a certain vegetable |
| JIG | Dance in 6/8 or 12/8 time that often formed the last movement of an 18th-century suite (3) |
| WILLIAMPITT | The 1st Earl of Chatham, a British Whig statesman who was Prime Minister in the 18th century (7,4) |
| JEANMONNET | An early advocate of a Common Market in Europe, Jennifer Eaglehead briefly lived in Manton, but travelled around a lot (4,6) |
| PITTTHEELDER | Moniker of an 18th-century British statesman |
| JETHRO | Forename of an 18th-century agricultural pioneer who based his seed drill on a church organ, and whose namesake band, fronted by flute-playing flamingo-posing Ian Anderson, was misprinted as "Toe" on |
| BLUESTOCKINGS | Women members of an 18th Century intellectual society led by Elizabeth Montagu (13) |
| LEEK | In crop rotation, one of the vegetables typically grown in the onion/allium section of a vegetable patch (4) |
| BIGGLES | Nickname of an ace pilot hero in a series of 96 adventure books by Capt. W. E. Johns (7) |
| SPINACH | Turn a child against a certain vegetable (7) |
| STATIST | An advocate of a centralised form of control over social and economic affairs |
| SADISTS | Followers of an 18th century Marquis |
| WHERETHERESAQUILL | Description of an 18th-century writing desk? |
| QUEENANNESLACE | Part of an 18th-century monarch's shoe? (3 wds.) |
