| BOYNE | A battle in 1690 in which William III defeated the deposed James II (5) |
| CRECY | First decisive battle of the Hundred Years' War, in which the English under Edward III defeated the French forces of Philip VI (1346) |
| OLDPRETENDER | The ___, nickname of Prince James, Prince of Wales, the son of the deposed James II of England (3,9) |
| PRETENDER | 'The Old _', nickname of James Francis Edward Stuart, son of the deposed James II of England (9) |
| RUFUS | William ___, name by which William II, king of England, was known (5) |
| GALBA | Emperor of Rome who succeeded the deposed Nero in 68 AD (5) |
| WHIGS | Members of the English political party that opposed the succession to the throne of James II (5) |
| JACOBITE | Supporter of the deposed James II |
| RUSSE | Which William Carlos Williams poem begins: "If I when my wife is sleeping"? (5) |
| WHEAT | Cereal grass which William Farrer helped to establish in Aust. |
| ROW | Rotten _, bridleway running along the south side of Hyde Park in London, created by William III In 1690 (3) |
| HASTINGS | 1066 battle in which William the Conqueror defeated Harold (8) |
| CAEN | Port city of NW France in which William the Conqueror was buried in 1087 (4) |
| GRASMERE | Cumbria village at the centre of the Lake District in which William and Dorothy Wordsworth lived from 1799 (8) |
| MOLE | Burrowing mammal associated with the Jacobean toast "to the little gentleman in the black velvet waistcoat" due to its alleged part in the death of William III (4) |
| ILLYRIA | Country in which William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night is set (7) |
| ORANGEMAN | In Northern Ireland, a member of a Protestant fraternal lodge; historically, a follower of William III (9) |
| TREATISES | John Locke wrote two such formal works on "Government" in 1690 (9) |
| FALKIRK | 1298 battle after which William Wallace resigned as Guardian of Scotland, The Battle of - (7) |
| ORANGE | William of ___ , byname of King William III, who acceded to the throne in 1689 jointly with Queen Mary II (6) |
