| 17th-century conflict | 21 |
| 17th-century composer Henry | 27 |
| 17th-century Baroque sculptor | 29 |
| 17th-century artistic style | 27 |
| 17th-century artist, perhaps | 28 |
| 17th-century anti-witch application? | 36 |
| 17th-century actress Nell who was Charles II's mistress | 59 |
| 17th-century actress Nell | 25 |
| 17th-C. French explorer | 23 |
| 17th-18th century British poet Nicholas | 39 |
| 17th state | 10 |
| 17th of 50 | 10 |
| 17th letters of an alphabet | 27 |
| 17th letter of the Greek alphabet | 33 |
| 17th Hebrew letter | 18 |
| 17th Greek letter | 17 |
| 17th chapter | 12 |
| 17th century's end | 22 |
| 17th century Seneca foes | 24 |
| 17th century French playwright | 30 |
| 17th century Dutch painter Jan | 30 |
| 17th century court dance | 24 |
| 17th century British philosopher | 32 |
| 17th C. stringed instruments | 28 |
| 17th c. Dutch painter | 21 |
| 1799 Egyptian discovery | 23 |
| 1799 discovery that made possible the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics | 76 |
| 1798 battleground | 17 |
| 1797-8 to-do | 12 |
| 1796 Napoleonic battle site | 27 |
| 1796 Napoleon battle site | 25 |
| 1794 patent awardee Whitney | 27 |
| 1791 legislation | 16 |
| 1791 addition | 13 |
| 1790s diplomatic powder keg | 27 |
| 1790s clash that almost led to a U.S.-French war | 48 |
| 1789 storm site | 15 |
| 1788 stop for the Bounty | 24 |
| 1786 Springfield insurrectionist | 32 |
| 1786 rebellion's eponym | 27 |
| 1786 erupter | 12 |
| 1785 invention of England's Edmund Cartwright | 49 |
| 1781 surrender site | 19 |
| 1781 Mozart premiere | 20 |
| 1781 discovery | 14 |
| 1780 battle site | 16 |
| 1778 visitor to Hawaii | 22 |
| 1778 epistolary novel by Frances Burney | 39 |
| 1777-78 Continental Army encampment | 35 |
| 1777-'78 military camp site | 31 |
| 1777-'78 Continental Army campsite | 38 |
| 1777 Revolutionary War battle site | 34 |
| 1777 Philadelphia-area battle site | 34 |
| 1777 Pennsylvania battle site | 29 |
| 1777 battle site near Philadelphia | 34 |
| 1777 battle site | 16 |
| 1777 battle | 11 |
| 1776-1876: Abbr. | 16 |
| 1776, e.g. | 10 |
| 1776 soldier | 12 |
| 1776 patriot Silas | 18 |
| 1776 or 2000 | 12 |
| 1776 or 1984 | 12 |
| 1776 or 1945 | 12 |
| 1776 Loyalists | 14 |
| 1776 loyalist | 13 |
| 1776 foes | 9 |
| 1776 British soldier | 20 |
| 1776 battleground | 17 |
| 1776 battle site near New York City | 35 |
| 1776 battle site | 16 |
| 1776 and 2001, e.g.: Abbr. | 26 |
| 1775 rider | 10 |
| 1775 foe of the British | 23 |
| 1775 flag motto | 15 |
| 1775 battle site | 16 |
| 1773 Tea Party, e.g. | 20 |
| 1773 jetsam in Boston Harbor | 28 |
| 1773 jetsam | 11 |
| 1773 Boston Harbor jetsam | 25 |
| 1773 "party" precursor | 32 |
| 1771 ballad, "_____, Robin Gray" | 42 |
| 1770s patriot Hale | 18 |
| 1770s loyalists | 15 |
| 1770 patriot Attucks | 20 |
| 1765 tax law | 12 |
| 1760-yard racer | 15 |
| 1760 yards | 10 |
| 1760 make a mi. | 15 |
| 1751 Henry Fielding novel | 25 |
| 1751 Fielding novel | 19 |
| 175% of CCCXVI | 14 |
| 1740 Samuel Richardson novel | 28 |
| 1739 South Carolina slave rebellion site | 40 |
| 1738 Handel opera set in Persia | 31 |
| 1732, 1799, etc. | 16 |
| 1729 Jonathan Swift pamphlet, with "A" | 48 |
| 1728, e.g. | 10 |
| 1725 Vivaldi work, in a first language? | 39 |
| 1719 literary hero | 18 |