| STATES | The temporal domain of the popes in central Italy from 756 until the unification of Italy in 1870 (6) |
| PAPAL | And 13 The temporal domain of the popes in central Italy from 756 until the unification of Italy in 1870 (5) |
| BLOOM | PlusWord No 756 |
| FETTES | Independent school in Edinburgh founded in 1870 (6) |
| BARUCH | ****** College, institution in New York named after a financier born in 1870 (6) |
| BELLOC | Hilaire, British poet born in France in 1870 (6) |
| CASERTA | Town in Campania that was the centre of Garibaldi's campaigns for the unification of Italy |
| GARIBALDI | Patriot who led the unification of Italy in the 1860's (9) |
| RISORGIMENTO | The period of the political unification of Italy in the 19c (12) |
| KAISER | Title assumed in 1870 by the Prussian king Wilhelm I following the unification of Germany (6) |
| AVIGNON | Six 14th-century conclaves took place at the Palace of the Popes, in this city in a former papal enclave |
| PRYCE | He played one of the popes in The Two Popes |
| VATICAN | The palace of the popes in Rome (7) |
| BORGIA | Italo-Spanish family which produced two popes in the 15th Century, patrons of the arts who helped the Renaissance (6) |
| BISMARCK | Prussian prince, 1815-1898, nicknamed the Iron Chancellor, who oversaw the unification of Germany (8) |
| CASTEL | And 8 Summer residence of the pope, in Lazio, Italy, on Lake Albano just south of Rome (6,8) |
| GANDOLFO | Summer residence of the pope, in Lazio, Italy, on Lake Albano just south of Rome (6,8) |
| KOHL | Helmut __, chancellor widely credited with the unification of Germany in 1990 (4) |
| SISTINE | _ Chapel, the chapel of the Pope in the Vatican at Rome, famous for its Renaissance frescoes by Michelangelo and others (7) |
| OTTO | - von Bismarck, leader who oversaw the unification of Germany (4) |
