| PETRIE | Flinders, British archaeologist and Egyptologist born in 1853 who invented sequence dating (6) |
| HOWARDCARTER | English archaeologist and Egyptologist; a primary discoverer of the tomb of Tutankhamun (6,6) |
| LARA | Forename of a fictional British archaeologist and tomb raider in a series of video games and films (4) |
| FILLMORE | 13th US president (1850-1853) who unsuccessfully ran again in 1856 |
| AMELIA | Edwards, 19th-century English novelist and Egyptologist who co-founded the Egypt Exploration Fund (6) |
| CARTER | Howard, British archaeologist who excavated King Tutankhamen's tomb in 1922 (6) |
| OLIVER | Neil ----, Scottish archaeologist and broadcaster (6) |
| ARTHUR | British archaeologist whose excavations on the island of Crete led to the discovery of the Bronze Age Minoan civilisation (6) |
| MCCOMB | John ___, US architect; co-designer of New York City Hall who died in 1853 (6) |
| TISSOT | Watchmaking company founded in the Swiss city of Le Locle, in the Neuchatel area of the Jura Mountains, in 1853 |
| CAYLEY | Engineer who designed a biplane that became the world's first glider to carry a human aloft following a flight by the farmer's reluctant coachman in 1853 (6) |
| LILLIE | ___ Langtry, actress born on Jersey in 1853 (6) |
| PIECES | Flinders |
| YOUNG | Physicist and Egyptologist who helped to establish the wave theory of light and assisted in the Rosetta Stone's decipherment (5) |
| MORTIMER | ____ Wheeler, British archaeologist born in 1890 noted for discoveries in Britain and India (8) |
| INDIANA | ___ Jones, archaeologist and adventurer played by 7D in four films, with a fifth due in 2020! (7) |
| EVANS | Sir Arthur ___, British archaeologist, who excavated Knossos and named the Minoan civilisation (5) |
| MATTHEW | British explorer and navigator who charted the Australian coastline, ... Flinders |
| BRUCE | Scottish explorer, archaeologist and linguist best known for tracing the origins of the Blue Nile in |
| WHEELER | Mortimer, British archaeologist born in 1890 (7) |
