| FOUNDINGFATHERS | They originated in America in 1787 |
| RHODEISLANDRED | Breed of domestic fowl that originated in America and lays brown eggs |
| EPSOM | Soothing salts, or the town where they originated |
| CHEVIOT | Sheep breed named after the hills on the Scotland-England border where they originated (7) |
| HEADLINE | Word widely associated with journalists and newspapers, but which originated in US Civil War prison camps (8) |
| OBERON | Discovered by William Herschel in 1787, moon of Uranus named after the king of the fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream (6) |
| CUNARD | Samuel --, shipping magnate born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1787 (6) |
| COURAGE | John, shipping agent who founded a brewery in London in 1787 (7) |
| TITANIA | Uranus' largest moon and 8th largest in the solar system, discovered by William Herschel in 1787 (7) |
| BOUNTY | Ship sent for breadfruit in 1787 |
| USCONSTITUTION | Document framed in 1787 |
| DONGIOVANNI | Mozart opera produced in 1787 (3,8) |
| ETTY | William, English history painter born in 1787 (4) |
| SUA | "Dalla ___ Pace": Aria in 1787 Mozart opera Don Giovanni |
| KEAN | Edmund, British Shakespearean stage actor born in 1787 (4) |
| LORDS | Founded in 1787 on what is now Dorset Square and later moved to St John's Wood, the home of cricket (5) |
| ALARMCLOCK | Variation of a time-keeping device, created in 1787 by American inventor Levi Hutchins (5,5) |
| OPIE | Cornish artist who painted The Murder of Rizzio in 1787 (4) |
| BOSTONCOMMON | Public park (the oldest one in America) in Massachusetts' largest city, established in 1634: 2 wds. |
| NEWSOUTHWALES | Innovative opposition to union in America, in Britain and in Australia (3,5,5) |
