| WEDGWOOD | Potter whose company, founded in 1759, is still noted in the present day for its Queen's Ware, Black Basalt and Jasper (8) |
| CHESS | Its queens are men |
| SHEPHERDS | ___ huts; traditional shelters for farm workers, used in the present day for glamping or as summer houses (9) |
| LINEN | Used by the ancient Egyptians and medieval embroiders, a flax textile used in the present day for household textiles and summer clothes (5) |
| PERFECTPITCH | Something for the great players is duly noted in the pits (7,5) |
| COMPOSER | A person whose writing is noted in the sound of list, e.g. (8) |
| SYNDICATE | This association wants the nicest day for its formation |
| NORTHAMERICA | Third largest of the world's continents in the present day, lying for the most part between the Arctic Circle and the Tropic of Cancer in the Western Hemisphere. (5,7) |
| KATERI | The first Indigenous person of North America to become a Saint, she was born in New York state ...and lived in the present-day Mohawk territory of Kahnawake (near Montreal) in the last years of her li |
| AMID | In the present day I'm making a comeback in the centre of things (4) |
| GUINNESSBREWERIES | Company founded in Dublin, Ireland, in 1759 and the world's largest of its kind by 1886 |
| AWARD | Decoration for the battle in the present day (5) |
| CLOVELLY | Fishing village in North Devon with a cobbled street immortalised in Rex Whistler's design for Wedgwood's Queen's ware (8) |
| OSGOOD | James whose company published the first U.S. edition of "The Prince and the Pauper" |
| JETTA | A 1979 Volkswagen saloon still in the present-day range (5) |
| GRACE | Singer Potter whose backing band is the Nocturnals |
| TOFT | Staffordshire slipware potter whose designs ranged from unicorns, wyverns, mermaids, pelicans with cross-hatched borders to Charles II in the Boscobel Oak (4) |
| GUINNESS | Founder in 1759 of a brewery specialising in Irish dry stout; or, an actor who starred in The Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia (8) |
| PALISSY | 16th-century French potter whose works became inspiration for Minton's Victorian majolica (7) |
| WOLFE | General James ____ died in the hour of victory, over the French at Quebec in 1759 |
