| PETRIE | In 1891-92, this pioneering Egyptologist investigates the Great Temple of the Aten at Amarna. |
| SPOUTS | "Building nests in Fame's great temple, as in ____ the swallows build" (Longfellow, Nuremberg) |
| SUNDISC | Another name for the Aten in Egyptian mythology (3,4) |
| JUNEBROWN | Veteran Eastenders' actress who turned 92 this year (4,5) |
| LEDZEPPELIN | Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham formed this pioneering heavy metal group ( |
| AMENHOTEP | ? IV, Egyptian pharaoh also called Akhenaten who established the cult of Aten |
| PALENQUE | In 1839, Frederick Catherwood and John Lloyd Stephens found the city of Copan. They continued on their exploration of the Yucatan Peninsula and found "The Temple of the Inscriptions" in this ruined ci |
| HANOI | In which Asian city is Hoan Kiem Lake, also known as Lake of the Restored Sword, where the Temple of the Jade Mountain is connected to the mainland by the red The Huc Bridge? (5) |
| FIVELITTLEPIGS | Agatha Christie novel (1942), in which Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of artist Amyas Crale, published in the US as Murder in Retrospect (4,6,4) |
| HASEDERA | The main temple of the Buzan sect of Shingon Buddhism whose Main Hall is a National Treasure of Japan |
| CORONER | One investigates the method of passing oxygen in tight spot (7) |
| GONE | ___ Tomorrow 2009 novel by Lee Child in which Jack Reacher investigates the death of Susan Mark |
| IROBOT | Movie in which Will Smith investigates the death of an AI mogul |
| TESS | ___ of the d'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy novel first serialised in the illustrated newspaper The Graphic in 1891 (4) |
| BANGKOK | Thai city in which the Wat Arun (Temple of the Dawn) is found |
| WARREN | Chairman of the 1963 commission set up to investigate the death of US President John F Kennedy |
| YOUNG | Physicist and Egyptologist who helped to establish the wave theory of light and assisted in the Rosetta Stone's decipherment (5) |
| HOWARDCARTER | English archaeologist and Egyptologist; a primary discoverer of the tomb of Tutankhamun (6,6) |
| CALTECH | Byname for the science and engineering institute in the U.S. city of Pasadena established in 1891 (7) |
| CUZCO | Peruvian city that's home to the Inca Temple of the Sun |