| ACHAIA | Before the Roman conquest in 146 BCE, what was the name given to a strip of land between the Gulf of Corinth in the north and Elis and Arcadia in the south? (6) |
| SINAI | Land between the Gulfs of Aqaba and Suez |
| AGRICOLA | Gnaeus Julius ---, Roman general responsible for much of the Roman conquest of Britain (8) |
| ALESIA | Siege of 52 BC virtually completed the Roman conquest of Gaul (6) |
| DOAB | Strip of land between rivers |
| IRONAGE | It ended in Britain with the Roman Conquest |
| ISTHMUS | Strip of land between water (7) |
| BRITONS | Indigenous inhabitants of Great Britain before the Roman invasion |
| NONES | Ninth day before the Roman ides |
| ETRUSCANS | People whose civilisation dominated modern Italy before the Roman empire |
| LEPANTO | Port in Greece between the Gulfs of Corinth and Patras that was the scene of a 1571 naval battle in which the Turkish fleet was defeated by the fleets of the Holy League |
| YUCATAN | A northeastern projection of Central America, lying between the Gulf of Mexico to the west and north and the Caribbean Sea to the east. (7) |
| LYDIA | Ancient region on the west coast of Asia Minor that was a powerful kingdom in the century and a half before the Persian conquest in 546 BC |
| TITHES | What was the name given to taxes payable to the church, abolished in the 19th century? (6) |
| WRANGEL | - Island, area of land between the Chukchi Sea and East Siberian Sea in the Arctic Ocean off the NE coast of Russia (7) |
| KRA | Isthmus of ___, narrow neck of the Malay Peninsula between the Gulf of Thailand and the Bay of Bengal (3) |
| SORRENTO | Port and resort of southern Italy occupying a peninsula between the Gulf of Naples and the Gulf of Salerno (8) |
| ISCHIA | Volcanic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea between the gulfs of Gaeta and Salerno, part of the Campania region of SW Italy (6) |
| CAPEYORK | Northernmost extremity of Australia, projecting into the Torres Strait between the Gulf of Carpentaria and the Coral Sea. (4,4) |
| THIRTEEN | What was the name given to the doctor played by Olivia Wilde in House MD? |
