| CUNARD | British cruise line founded in 1840 (6) |
| TABLET | The ____, Roman Catholic weekly publication founded in 1840 (6) |
| PHAT | ___ Farm (clothing line founded by Russell Simmons) |
| BERLINER | German/British cruise ship crossing East River (8) |
| FROBEL | Friedrich ___, German educator who opened the Kindergarten institute in 1840 (6) |
| SIMEON | ****** Solomon, painter associated with the PreRaphaelites born in 1840 (6) |
| STAMPS | Edward Stanley Gibbons, born in 1840, was noted for cataloguing them (6) |
| ROBERT | German composer and pianist who married his piano teacher Friedrich Wieck's daughter Clara in 1840 (6,8) |
| ALBERT | Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha who married his first cousin in 1840 (6) |
| LAREDO | Texas city, capital of the short-lived Republic of the Rio Grande in 1840 |
| OLIVIA | Cruise line for lesbians and LGBTQ+ women |
| SCRIPT | Cruise lines? |
| BRUMMELL | English fashion trendsetter and friend of the Prince of Wales who died in poverty in France in 1840 (4,8) |
| BEAU | English fashion trendsetter and friend of the Prince of Wales who died in poverty in France in 1840 (4,8) |
| WAITANGI | Location of the first signing of a treaty between Maori Chiefs and the British Crown in 1840 whose name means 'weeping waters' in Maori |
| THETABLET | Catholic weekly review first published in 1840 (3,6) |
| ENVELOPE | What postal item was first introduced to the world in France in 1840? (8) |
| PENNYBLACK | The first adhesive postage stamp, issued in Britain in 1840 (5,5) |
| SCHUMANN | German composer and pianist who married his piano teacher Friedrich Wieck's daughter Clara in 1840 (6,8) |
| SORDELLO | Robert Browning poem of a troubadour published in 1840 (8) |
