| DAMPIER | William --, English explorer and navigator (1651-1715) (7) |
| CAPTAINJAMESCOOK | English explorer and navigator who circumnavigated New Zealand (7,5,4) |
| HENRYHUDSON | English explorer and navigator after whom a river in New York State is named (5,6) |
| BAFFIN | William, English explorer who gave his name to a 'bay' separating Canada from Greenland (6) |
| AMERIGO | _ Vespucci, 15th Century Italian explorer and navigator who had a continent named after him (7) |
| MATTHEW | British explorer and navigator who charted the Australian coastline, ... Flinders |
| FIENNES | Ranulph, English explorer and writer (7) |
| RALEIGH | Sir Walter --, English explorer and writer (7) |
| TOBACCO | Commander and navigator retired for shag? (7) |
| SCARRON | Which 17th-century French writer of burlesque verse has work including Le Roman Comique (1651-59)? (7) |
| OAKTREE | In what did King Charles II traditionally hide following the Battle of Worcester in 1651? (3,4) |
| UTRECHT | Dutch city where a series of peace treaties were signed between 1713 and 1715 ending the War of the Spanish Succession (7) |
| BRAEMAR | Scottish village, the starting point of the 1715 Jacobite rising (7) |
| AMERIGOVESPUCCI | Italian explorer and navigator, 1454-1512, who made voyages on behalf of Spain and Portugal (7,8) |
| RIOTACT | UK law introduced in 1715 to quell civil disturbance and disperse unlawful assemblies of people (4,3 |
| DOGGETT | Thomas ?, Irish actor; founder of a sculling prize in 1715 that is still competed for on the River Thames on August 1 (7) |
| SUNKING | Nickname of Louis XIV, the French monarch who reigned for 72 years and 110 days until his death in 1715 (3,4) |
| TENISON | Secondary schools in both Kennington and Croydon were founded by Thomas ____, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1694-1715 |
| MARTELL | Jean, Jersey-born French wine merchant who founded a cognac distillery in 1715 (7) |
| LOUISXV | Important 5-year-old of 1715 |
