| ORFEO | ___ ed Euridice, 1762 opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck |
| CINESI | Le ___, opera composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck (6) |
| ARTAXERXES | 1762 opera by Thomas Arne about the son of Persian king Xerxes I (10) |
| ASINGLEMAN | 1964 novel by Christoph er Isherwood (1,6,3) |
| GLUCK | German opera composer of the early classical period whose works include Orfeo Ed Euridice (1762) |
| ALTO | Orfeo, e.g., in Gluck's "Orfeo ed Euridice" |
| OPERA | "Orfeo ed Euridice," e.g. |
| OPERAS | "Fidelio" and "Orfeo ed Euridice" |
| ORFEOEDEURIDICE | Opera first performed in 1762 |
| EMILE | Eponymous boy of a 1762 treatise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| AMOR | "Orfeo ed Euridice" god |
| BARINGS | Merchant bank (founded 1762) brought down by "rogue trader" Nick Leeson in 1995 (7) |
| ALMEIDA | Portuguese town besieged by the Spanish in 1762 and the French in 1810 (7) |
| SYONHOUSE | Built in the sixteenth century and with interiors redesigned by Robert Adam in 1762, the London home of the Duke of Northumberland (4,5) |
| CATCHPOLE | Margaret, British horse thief born in 1762 who was the subject of a novel by Richard Cobbold (9) |
| ANSON | George ___, circumnavigator and admiral, 1697-1762 (5) |
| TSARS | Peters out after 1762, for example (5) |
| NASH | Richard, known as Beau, English dandy who died in 1762 (4) |
| BUTE | John Stuart, Earl of ?, British prime minister from 1762-63 (4) |
| BRADLEY | James --, 1693-1762, English astronomer (7) |
