| SHAYS | Rebel leader of 1786 |
| FIGARO | 'The Marriage of ---', 1786 opera by Mozart (6) |
| ROBERTASKE | The rebel leader of the Pilgrimage of Grace, a protest against the dissolution of the monasteries |
| PASTICHE | Imitation of historical rebel, leader of insurgents captured (8) |
| LEE | Rebel leader of '61 |
| MASTERSTTOKE | Gain control over city capturing rebel leader of coup (12) |
| HESTERLYNCHTHRALE | English writer, author of Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson (1786) |
| SHELLEY | Poet whose Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson, written with Thomas Jefferson Hogg, remembers said seamstress who attempted the life of George III in 1786 (7) |
| BEAR | ? Symphony, nickname of a 1786 work in C major by Joseph Haydn (4) |
| HUNAU | City in central Germany noted as the birthplace of Jakob (1785) and Wilhelm (1786) Grimm (5) |
| LORENZODAPONTE | Italian poet who wrote the librettos for Mozart's The Marriage Of Figaro (1786), Don Giovanni (1787), and Cosi Fan Tutte (1790) (7,2,5) |
| MTSHASTA | 1786 erupter |
| SHASTA | Mount that last erupted in 1786 |
| JOST | Historic Sydney house built 1786 |
| FREDERICK | - the Great, Prussian king (1712-1786) |
| MOLSON | John ______ , Montreal brewer since 1786 |
| MARRIAGEOF | The ?, 1786 opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (8,2,6) |
| VATHEK | "Oriental tale" by William Beckford published in 1786 (6) |
| PENANG | Malaysian state founded by the British East India Company in 1786 (6) |
| MONTBLANC | Peak first ascended in 1786 by Michel-Gabriel Paccard and Jacques Balmat (4,5) |
