| ROYALACADEMY | Society founded by George III in 1768 (5,7) |
| BUCKINGHAM | ____ Palace, royal residence in London, privately acquired by George III in 1761 (10) |
| ILLUMINATI | Bavarian secret society founded by Adam Weishaupt in 1776 (10) |
| TOCH | Society founded by the Reverend Tubby Clayton in 1919 |
| LIONSCLUB | A faction of the international society founded by Melvin Jones in 1917 (5,4) |
| JONATHANGROFF | Mindhunter actor who played King George III in Hamilton: 2 wds. |
| GROFF | Jonathan who played King George III in "Hamilton" |
| SPODE | Who was appointed potter to George III in 1806? (5) |
| ACADEMY | The A of RA, the British art organisation founded in 1768 |
| CORSICA | Island ceded to France by Genoa in 1768 |
| 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) |
| ENDEAVOUR | Ship commanded by James Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific in 1768 (9) |
| CHARLOTTE | Large city in North Carolina (pop about 900,000), incorporated in 1768 (9) |
| IGUANA | Genus of lizard first described by Austrian naturalist Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti in 1768 |
| JOSEALVAREZ | Spanish sculptor born in 1768 employed by Napoleon to decorate the Ouirinal Palace (4,7) |
| CANALETTO | Venetian painter who died in 1768 (9) |
| REYNOLDS | First president of the Royal Academy in 1768, artist Sir Joshua ... |
| INIGO | English landscape painter and a founding member of the Royal Academy in 1768, John ... Richards |
| COOK | British Naval Lieutenant who captained HMS Endeavour on a voyage to the Pacific in 1768-71 (4) |
| YMCA | Org. founded by George Williams in 1844 |