| 16th-century English dramatist George | 37 |
| 16th-century explorer | 21 |
| 16th-century explorer of Florida | 32 |
| 16th-century Florentine food? | 29 |
| 16th-century founder of Scottish Presbyterianism | 48 |
| 16th-century Italian composer, subject of a 1917 German opera | 61 |
| 16th-century Italian poet Torquato ___ | 38 |
| 16th-century Italian sculptor | 29 |
| 16th-century opener | 19 |
| 16th-century pope | 17 |
| 16th-century Portuguese mathematician Pedro | 43 |
| 16th-century Spain, for one | 27 |
| 16th-century Spanish explorer | 29 |
| 16th-century Spanish fleet | 26 |
| 16th-century Spanish mystic | 27 |
| 16th-century start | 18 |
| 16th-century stringed instrument | 32 |
| 16th-century Vatican frescoist | 30 |
| 16th-century violin | 19 |
| 16th-century work also known as "La Gioconda" | 55 |
| 16th-century yr. | 16 |
| 16th/17th-century dramatic nickname | 35 |
| 17 1/2 million square miles | 27 |
| 17 C. playhouse | 15 |
| 17 Monopoly props. | 18 |
| 17 of them are sung before "my gosh" in a 2010 #1 Usher hit | 69 |
| 17 to 17, e.g. | 14 |
| 17, in old Rome | 15 |
| 17-1 baseball score, e.g. | 25 |
| 17-20-24-12-8-9-13 | 18 |
| 17-9-19-10-2-12-22-7 | 20 |
| 17-A, 10-D and 25-D end with these | 34 |
| 17-gun salute recipient: Abbr. | 30 |
| 17-mission NASA program | 23 |
| 17-mission space program | 24 |
| 17-syllable creation | 20 |
| 17-syllable form of poetry | 26 |
| 17-syllable poem | 16 |
| 17-syllable poems | 17 |
| 17-syllable verse | 17 |
| 17-syllable verse form | 22 |
| 17-syllable work | 16 |
| 17-time NBA champs | 18 |
| 17-year Ford slogan | 19 |
| 17-year locust | 14 |
| 17-year-old sensation at the 1958 World Cup | 43 |
| 17-year-old, legally | 20 |
| 170 is its max score | 20 |
| 170-pound newsmaker of 7/10/62 | 30 |
| 1700 | 4 |
| 1700, inscribed | 15 |
| 1700, on cornerstones | 21 |
| 1711 loser | 10 |
| 1719 literary hero | 18 |
| 1725 Vivaldi work, in a first language? | 39 |
| 1728, e.g. | 10 |
| 1729 Jonathan Swift pamphlet, with "A" | 48 |
| 1732, 1799, etc. | 16 |
| 1738 Handel opera set in Persia | 31 |
| 1739 South Carolina slave rebellion site | 40 |
| 1740 Samuel Richardson novel | 28 |
| 175% of CCCXVI | 14 |
| 1751 Fielding novel | 19 |
| 1751 Henry Fielding novel | 25 |
| 1760 make a mi. | 15 |
| 1760 yards | 10 |
| 1760-yard racer | 15 |
| 1765 tax law | 12 |
| 1770 patriot Attucks | 20 |
| 1770s loyalists | 15 |
| 1770s patriot Hale | 18 |
| 1771 ballad, "_____, Robin Gray" | 42 |
| 1773 "party" precursor | 32 |
| 1773 Boston Harbor jetsam | 25 |
| 1773 jetsam | 11 |
| 1773 jetsam in Boston Harbor | 28 |
| 1773 Tea Party, e.g. | 20 |
| 1775 battle site | 16 |
| 1775 flag motto | 15 |
| 1775 foe of the British | 23 |
| 1775 rider | 10 |
| 1776 and 2001, e.g.: Abbr. | 26 |
| 1776 battle site | 16 |
| 1776 battle site near New York City | 35 |
| 1776 battleground | 17 |
| 1776 British soldier | 20 |
| 1776 foes | 9 |
| 1776 loyalist | 13 |
| 1776 Loyalists | 14 |
| 1776 or 1945 | 12 |
| 1776 or 1984 | 12 |
| 1776 or 2000 | 12 |
| 1776 patriot Silas | 18 |
| 1776 soldier | 12 |
| 1776, e.g. | 10 |
| 1776-1876: Abbr. | 16 |
| 1777 battle | 11 |
| 1777 battle site | 16 |
| 1777 battle site near Philadelphia | 34 |
| 1777 Pennsylvania battle site | 29 |