| NEWAMSTERDAM | Settlement established in 1624 by the Dutch |
| OSLO | City renamed in 1624 by Christian IV |
| JAMESTOWN | British settlement established in Virginia in 1607 (9) |
| CRICKETBAT | Item of sports equipment, first mentioned in 1624 (7,3) |
| RICHELIEU | Cardinal ---, French clergyman who became King Louis XIII's chief minister in 1624 (9) |
| BALI | Invaded by the Dutch in 1908 and the Japanese in WWII this Sunda island was absorbed into the new na |
| STARRYNIGHT | The ___ an oil on canvas by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh which is housed in the Museum of Modern Art in NYC: 2 wds. |
| ROOSEVELTISLAND | Locale called Minnahannock by the Algonquin Indians, bought by the Dutch in 1637 |
| BASEL | Settlement established by large part of Switzerland (5) |
| NOMANIS | Famous aphorism by English poet John Donne, in the 17th devotion, Meditation XVII, of the 1624 prose work Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (2,3,2,2,6) |
| ANISLAND | Famous aphorism by English poet John Donne, in the 17th devotion, Meditation XVII, of the 1624 prose work Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (2,3,2,2,6) |
| STKITTS | Site of the first British colony in the Caribbean, 1624 |
| TULIP | Originally from Persia and popularised by the Dutch in the 16th century, a colourful, cup-shaped spring flower (5) |
| FAD | Originally designed by the Dutch, wooden clogs became an American ___ in the '70s |
| STATEN | Island named by the Dutch in 1609 |
| LONDINIUM | Roman settlement established around AD48 |
| CHRISTIANIA | Name by which Oslo was known from 1624 to 1877 in honour of the king who had it rebuilt (11) |
| ORANGE | Colour of the kit traditionally worn by the Dutch national football team (6) |
| CAPEPROVINCE | Part of southern South Africa that was settled by the Dutch in 1652 (4,8) |
| SCHOONER | Sailing ship with two or more masts, first used by the Dutch in 16th/17th centuries (8) |
