| NEWLYNN | Suburb of southwest Auckland, site of numerous brickworks in the 1870s (3,4) |
| EPSOM | Suburb of Auckland; site of the Alexandra Park Raceway (5) |
| SNOOKER | Indoor game first played in India in the 1870s (7) |
| HOODLUM | Which word, probably a German derivative, emerged in San Francisco in the 1870s to describe a small-time gangster? (7) |
| DANIELS | Iconic Tennessee whiskey distillery established in the 1870s, Jack ... (6'1) |
| KILVERT | Francis --, English clergyman remembered for his diaries reflecting rural life in the 1870s (7) |
| HELMETS | The origins of What enduring but false stereotype can be traced to costume designs for Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen opera cycle productions of the 1870s? (6,6,7) |
| SAMURAI | The Last -; film set in Japan during the 1870s which stars Tom Cruise (7) |
| COCKPIT | Fellow approaching mine in site of numerous battles |
| ARALSEA | Site of numerous ship graveyards |
| MURUROA | Polynesian site of numerous French nuclear tests |
| PARAPET | Imitate a piece all round the top of the brickwork (7) |
| WORMWOODSCRUBS | Prison in the London borough of Hammersmith and Fulham built by convict labour in the 1870s (8,6) |
| ICECREAM | In the 1870s, Philadelphia was the US hub for manufacture of what cold foodstuff? (3,5) |
| STREETLAMP | The first electric one was used in Paris in the 1870s |
| BOBSLEIGH | Winter Olympic sport in which teams of two race on narrow iced tracks and was first played in the 1870s |
| BARNARDO | The philanthropist Thomas John, who founded homes for destitute orphaned children in the 1870s (8) |
| TENNIS | Derived from jeu de paume, game codified in England in the 1870s (6) |
| STEMWINDER | US name for a type of watch which was new in the 1870s |
| LITHOPONE | Brilliant white pigment of zinc sulphide and barium sulphate first produced in the 1870s; Greek, 'stone work' (9) |
