| ACADIA | North American Atlantic seaboard possessions of France in the 17th and 18th century (6) |
| QUAHOG | Edible clam native to the North American Atlantic coast (6) |
| ESTATES | Properties on the American Atlantic seaboard |
| MINUET | Stately court dance in triple time fashionable in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries; from French, 'dainty, small' (6) |
| PERUKE | A type of wig for men, fashionable in the 17th and 18th centuries (6) |
| SPINET | What small harpsichord was popular in the 17th and 18th centuries? (6) |
| BRETON | Native of the region of France in the north-west corner (6) |
| HALLEY | Edmund _, English astronomer of the 17th and 18th centuries (6) |
| ASSETS | Total value of the possessions of a person or company (6) |
| NOUMEA | Capital of that little part of France in the Pacific, New Caledonia |
| ESTATE | Property and possessions of the deceased (6) |
| ALIENS | Doctors in training entertain a right to possessions of foreign nationals (8,6) |
| EMPIRE | Territorial possessions of a politician in Ireland (6) |
| SALMAGUNDI | Dish of eggs, anchovies, onions and chopped meat popular in 17th and 18th-century England (10) |
| BARLEYSUGAR | Variety of boiled sweet created in France in the 17th century as Sucre d'orge (6.5) |
| RICHELIEU | Cardinal ___, prime minister of France in the 17th century (9) |
| STRADIVARIUS | Any of a number of violins manufactured by a famous family in Cremona in the 17th and 18th centuries (12) |
| BARBARYCOAST | Name given to an area of the Mediterranean which was a hotbed of piracy in the 17th and 18th centuries (7,5) |
| DEISM | Rational belief in God based on reason rather than revelation, prevalent in England and elsewhere in the 17th and 18th centuries (5) |
| PENAL | The _____ Laws were anti-Catholic measures imposed in Ireland in the 17th and 18th Centuries. (5) |
