| HILLEL | A Jewish teacher who died early in the first century AD (6) |
| GOTH | Member of an East Germanic people from Scandinavia who settled south of the Baltic early in the first millennium A.D. (4) |
| EXETER | Devon city, founded by the Romans as Isca in the first century AD (6) |
| LEIBNITZ | Town in the Austrian state of Styria, close to the Roman municipium of Flavia Solva founded in the first century AD (8) |
| LUDUS | The ___ Magnus ('great gladiatorial school') in Rome, built by Domitian in the first century AD (5) |
| ESSENES | Members of the ancient Jewish sect, flourishing in Palestine from the second century BC to the first century AD (7) |
| PUNICA | Mahoosive 1st century AD epic poem on the Carthaginian War |
| HIPPO | Supposedly historical Greek woman mentioned in the 1st century AD as an example of chastity (5) |
| ATTILA | Leader of the Huns in the fifth century AD (6) |
| RABBIT | Jewish teacher, 31 to begin with, for poor player (6) |
| TOLEDO | Spanish city on the River Tagus famous for steel and swords since the first century |
| FRANKS | Germanic-speaking people from the lower Rhine area (3rd century AD), later becoming a dominant force in Europe (6) |
| BREMEN | Cathedral city in north-east Germany (pop about 530,000), founded in the 7th century AD (6) |
| LUCIAN | 2nd century AD satirist who wrote Dialogues of the Dead (6) |
| ALCUIN | ____ of York, scholar and theologian born in the 8th century AD (6) |
| EUNICE | Mother of the first-century Christian bishop Saint Timothy |
| OSSIAN | A legendary Irish hero and bard of the 3rd century AD |
| RABBIS | Jewish teachers (6) |
| ESSENE | Certain Jew of the first century |
| TEDEUM | Latin Christian hymn dating from the late 4th century AD (2,4) |
