| MACAULAY | Thomas Babington -, nineteenth century politician, historian |
| IRONDUKE | 19th-century politician and press baron? No, rather loftier than that (4,4) |
| ALAMAN | Mexican politician-historian: 1792-1853 |
| WARREN | 18th-century politician in conflict over northern battle (6,8) |
| WHIG | Seventeenth century politician (4) |
| ROBERTWALPOLE | 18th century politician |
| BOBBYSHAFTO | 18th-century politician; subject of folk song from Northeast England (5,6) |
| TURNIP | "_" Townshend, nickname of the 18th-century politician who supported the use of a certain vegetable in crop rotation (6) |
| WALSINGHAM | Spymaster who uncovered the Babington Plot to assassinate Elizabeth I and employed intelligence workers to decode Mary, Queen of Scots' cipher (10) |
| CARLYLE | Thomas -, nineteenth century British essayist/historian |
| OCONNELL | Nineteenth century Irish politician called The Liberator, Daniel ... (1'7) |
| TELFORD | Thomas -, eighteenth - nineteenth century Scottish engineer |
| BISMARCK | Otto von -, nineteenth century German politician |
| REGENCY | Late eighteenth century to early nineteenth century style |
| ROSSETTI | Christina -, nineteenth century century English poet |
| MARYTODDLINCOLN | Nineteenth-century First Lady |
| RAE | Nineteenth-century explorer of the Canadian Arctic |
| NAST | Nineteenth-century political cartoonist |
| EDO | Nineteenth-century samurai home |
| GASLIGHTERA | Late nineteenth century time |
