| CHARIOTSOFFIRE | A historic offer represented in film (8,2,4) |
| PEDANTIC | Ant and Dec mostly represented in film as sticklers for detail |
| CUTTHROAT | Pitiless truth represented in film |
| ACADIANVILLAGE | Grand-pre in Nova Scotia is a historic one: 2 wds. |
| BOSTONTEAPARTY | Card game, drink and celebration — a historic event |
| AVIGNON | Situated on the left bank of the Rhone and known for a children's song about a bridge, a historic capital of Provence (7) |
| VARESE | A historic city in Lombardy, 55 kilometres north of Milan, that overlooks a glacial lake of the same name |
| VICTORY | Name of a number of British Royal Navy ships, the most famous one being launched in 1765 and preserved today as a historic relic (7) |
| MACHINE | Now, THAT'S a historic travel opportunity: If you had a time ___, you could go back in time and see how the dinosaurs lived |
| SYLVIAMENDEZ | Her attempt to enroll in a segregated school led to a historic nineteen-forties court case |
| EFFETE | Decadent, as the snobs in a historic Agnew speech |
| ALEPH | A historic character in Coleridge finally entering sacred river (5) |
| ATWAR | Engaged in a historic fight (2,3) |
| KEAN | Help to make a name as a historic stage performer (4) |
| ARENA | A historic period arising in stadium (5) |
| FEAR | Word repeated in a historic FDR quote |
| HAVANA | City where Barack Obama made a historic visit in March 2016 |
| THING | A slight obsession with a historic assembly (5) |
| MOOT | This point is disputable in a historic court (4) |
| DRED | Scott in a historic Supreme Court decision |
