| TAXES | The Suffolk Resolves were passed in Massachusetts in 1774. Among other actions, they urged colonists to stop paying ___. |
| FLAMINGROOVIES | Shake Some Action, they commanded (6,8) |
| BETWEENTIME | In the intervals separating other actions |
| CONSORTIA | Other actions alternatively included by alliances of business firms (9) |
| MAYFLOWER | Ship of the Pilgrim Fathers that landed in Massachusetts in 1620 (9) |
| RYDERCUP | Biennial men's golf competition first contested between Great Britain and the United States in Massachusetts in 1927 (5,3) |
| SMALLFRIES | When the appetizers were passed around, [ZAP!] the potato wedges turned into ... |
| MARINA | Swirling rain in Massachusetts in small harbour (6) |
| HARVARD | University established in Massachusetts in 1636 (7) |
| DICKINSON | Emily _, American poet born in Massachusetts in 1830 (9) |
| LOWESTOFT | Situated on the Suffolk coast, the UK's easternmost town, where Benjamin Britten was born in 1913 (9) |
| NORFOLK | -- Island in the S Pacific was discovered by Captain Cook in 1774 (7) |
| MARIEANTOINETTE | Archduchess of Austria who became Queen of France in 1774, executed in 1793 during the French Revolution (5,10) |
| NEWCALEDONIA | Group of islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean, capital NoumEa, where Captain Cook arrived in 1774 (3,9) |
| ANNE | Queen in power when the Acts of Union were passed |
| STOUR | River in East Anglia that runs along part of the Suffolk-Essex border (5) |
| STURMER | Village in Essex near the Suffolk border whose name was given to a heritage cultivar of pippin apple (7) |
| CHLORINE | Chemical element discovered by Carl Wilhelm Scheele in 1774 but named by Sir Humphry Davy in 1810 (8) |
| AGAINSTTHEGRAIN | How unwillingly the Corn Laws were passed? |
| IMAGE | Spitting ___ (what you may be to someone whose genes were passed to you) |
