| EDGEHILL | Fought in October, 1642, the first major pitched battle of the English Civil War (8) |
| SCOTLAND | Culloden, the last ever pitched battle on British soil, took place in 1746 in this part of the UK (8) |
| CULLODEN | ___ Moor, site of the last pitched battle on British soil (8) |
| NOTTINGHAM | City on the River Trent that was the scene of the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642 |
| CAVALIER | A supporter of Charles I in the 1642-49 English Civil War (8) |
| FANTASIA | Which 1940 film was the first major film with stereophonic sound? (8) |
| WORCESTER | Cathedral city on the River Severn; site in 1651 of the final battle of the English Civil War (9) |
| CLARINET | Mozart was the first major composer to write specifically for it |
| LEVELLER | Radical dissenter in the English Civil War (1642-49) (8) |
| MONTREAL | Large city in eastern Canada (pop about 1.8 million), founded in 1642 (8) |
| FALSETTO | Unusually pitched battle beside Cornish river |
| CRECY | Which battle in France in 1346 was the first major English victory of the Hundred Years War? (5) |
| THENIGHT | --- --- Watch, 1642 painting by Rembrandt, a famous work of the Dutch Golden Age (3,5) |
| TASMANIA | Smallest state of Australia, formerly (1642- 1855) called Van Diemen's Land (8) |
| BUNKERHILL | Site of the first major battle of the American Revolution in 1775: 2 wds. |
| NASEBY | Battle of the English Civil War (6) |
| ACRE | Siege of -; lasting from 1189-91, the first major battle of the Third Crusade (4) |
| DUNBAR | Location of the first major battle of Oliver Cromwell's invasion of Scotland (1650) (6) |
| DORIAN | The first major hurricane of the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season (6) |
| ISAIAH | Book of the Old Testament written by the first major Hebrew prophet (6) |
