| ALMAGEST | A work on astronomy compiled by Ptolemy in the 2nd century (8) |
| SAGITTA | From the Latin meaning "arrow" and listed by Ptolemy in the 2nd century, one of the constellations i |
| IGNATIUS | St. ____ of Antioch, theologian and Bishop of that city martyred in the second century A.D. (8) |
| APULEIUS | Roman writer of the 2nd century AD best known for the picaresque novel Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass (8) |
| LIKEABLE | Nice line taken by one beginning on astronomy in Oxford college |
| MACCABEE | Jewish rebel warrior who took part in the control of Judea around the second century BCE (8) |
| TIVOLI | Hadrian's Villa, built in the 2nd century CE at this Italian city, is considered the epitome in architecture of the opulence and elegance of the Roman world. The villa, also known as Villa Adriana, wa |
| TEUTON | A member of an ancient Germanic people from Jutland who migrated to Gaul in the 2nd Century B.C. (6) |
| ROME | First city to reach a population of one million people, in the second century B.C. |
| VIN | French word for a grapebased alcoholic beverage that has been mulled as a winterwarming seasonal tipple since the 2nd century by the Romans (3) |
| HASMONEAN | Dynasty of ancient Judea, whose first ruler was Simon Maccabeus in the second century BC (9) |
| ESSENES | Ascetic Jewish sect, originating in the second century BC |
| PIUS | Papal name first used in the second century |
| CARLVON | Prussian general; author of the unfinished On War, a work on military strategy (4,3,10) |
| GALEN | Roman physician born in the second century |
| DAPHNISANDCHLOE | The only known work of the 2nd century AD Greek novelist Longus |
| RUNES | Letters comprising the futhork alphabet, used especially in Britain and Scandinavian from around the 2nd century AD (5) |
| HASID | A Jewish sect of the 2nd century BC, formed to combat Helenistic influences (5) |
| PTOLEMY | Writer of the 2nd century astronomical treatise The Almagest (7) |
| REDACTION | Editing a work on origin of Dada movement |
