| NELSON | Admiral Horatio ___, 18th century British naval commander (6) |
| COOK | Captain James _, 18th century British naval officer, explorer, navigator and cartographer (4) |
| BOUNTY | 18th-century British ship (6) |
| STUART | "17th/18th-century" British ruling house |
| EUSDEN | 18th-century British Poet Laureate, Laurence ___ |
| STUBBS | 18th century British artist whose painting of Whistlejacket is displayed in London's National Galler |
| MOZART | Wolfgang Amadeus ___, 18th-century Austrian composer (6) |
| REPTON | Humphry ___, 18th-century landscape gardener (6) |
| WESLEY | John _, 18th-century English preacher who founded Methodism (6) |
| STERNE | Laurence ___, 18th-century Irish novelist (6) |
| CIBBER | Colley ___ 18th-century English Poet Laureate (6) |
| WATSON | William ___, 18th-century botanist, with bugle lily genus name after him - elementary, my dear! (6) |
| HEARNE | Samuel ___, 18th-century English overland explorer of Canada's Arctic |
| HEBERT | Jacques ___, 18th-century journalist; founder of newspaper Le Pere Duchesne during the French Revolu |
| SHANDY | "Tristram ___" (18th century novel) |
| NELSONSCOLUMN | War monument in Old Montreal commemorating British naval admiral Horatio: 2 wds. |
| HORATIONELSON | British naval commander at Trafalgar (7,6) |
| HORATIO | Forename of British naval commander Viscount Nelson (7) |
| ORATION | Speech embraced by a British naval commander? |
| MESSIAH | Argentine trained to shoot Admiral Horatio primarily, as Lord (7) |
