| BUBONICPLAGUE | Cause of the Black Death (7,6) |
| CAFFA | Name by which the Crimean port and resort city of Feodosiya was known at the time of the Black Death |
| OBERAMMERGAU | Venue in southern Germany of a Passion Play performed every ten years to recall the outbreak of the Black Death there in 1633 (12) |
| PALERMO | Santa Rosalia, who saved the city from the Black Death, is the patron saint of this capital of Sicil |
| FLEAS | What spread the Black Death of the mid14th Century? (5) |
| HOUSINGBUBBLE | One cause of the financial crisis of 2008 |
| BUBONIC | Form of plague (rather than the pneumonic kind) that was called the Black Death |
| FOURTEENTH | Century in which the Black Death swept Europe Here are your answers to the crossword on 'The lunch hour genealogist' pages |
| PLAGUE | The Black Death, which reached Europe in the mid-14th century, was a particularly devastating one (6 |
| FLEA | Bug that spreads the Black Death |
| DANSEMACABRE | Allegorical genre which emerged after the Black Death |
| RAT | Large rodent blamed for the Black Death (3) |
| EDMUNDBURKE | 18th-century British Whig statesman regarded as the philosophical founder of modern conservatism; Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770) |
| KRUGERRAND | Gold coin featuring the likeness of the statesman whose actions were one cause of the Second Boer War |
| EASTEND | Brute leaving Black Death area of London (4,3) |
| SANANDREAS | Cause of the Los Angeles earthquake of 1994, the ... Fault (3,7) |
| MOUNTPELEE | Active volcano on Martinique; cause of the worst volcanic disaster of the 20th Century (5,5) |
| PRIAM | Last king of Troy, whose son was the cause of the Trojan War (5) |
| BLIGHT | Disease that causes browning and death of plant tissue, cause of the Irish Potato Famine (6) |
| ADAMSMITH | Author of "An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" |
