| HOLLAND | Until 1974, the Parts of ___ was an administrative area in Lincolnshire, including Boston and Spalding |
| SOBS | For crying out loud, Tons Of ___ was an album by Free (4) |
| EMPIRESTATE | World's tallest building until 1974, the ... Building (6,5) |
| SUITE | Solicitor's first to take on an administrative area (5) |
| CAMEMBERT | Administrative area in Normandy famous for its soft, creamy cheese (9) |
| KRAI | Administrative area in 16 (4) |
| SPEECH | Parts of ___ (verb, noun, etc.) (6) |
| KIRIBATI | Because of an adjustment to the International Date Line, this day in 1994 did not exist in parts of ____ |
| LINDSEY | Parts of ------- . the largest of the three former administrative areas of Lincolnshire (7) |
| RHODES | The Colossus of ___ was one of the Seven Wonders of the World. (6) |
| EGER | Bull's Blood of ____ was a Hungarian red wine promoted in the UK in the 1960s and 1970s |
| MUNGOMAN | In 1974, the geomorphologist Jim Bowler discovered these remains while studying the climate of prehistoric Australia. They are 40,000 years old and are the world's first known human ritual burial. Wha |
| ALDERMAN | In England and Wales until 1974, one of the senior members of a local council, elected by other councillors (8) |
| ADDISON | Joseph ____ was an essayist, poet and politician, and a co-founder of The Spectator |
| ELALAMEIN | The decisive 1942 second battle of ____ was the watershed of the Western Desert campaign |
| LEPANTO | The Battle of ____ was the last in the western world mainly involving rowed vessels |
| RALEIGH | Which Sir Walter ___ was an Elizabethan explorer who introduced the potato and the tobacco plant to England? (7) |
| BEIDERBECKEAFFAIR | The ____ was an ITV serial about the unlikely adventures of two schoolteachers |
| TENURE | Fixity of ___ was one of the Three Fs demanded by the Land League. (6) |
| SAINTMIHIEL | The battle of ____ was America's first major offensive in France during the First World War |
