| POTIPHAR | Old Testament captain of Pharaoh's guard who bought Joseph as a slave (8) |
| BONDSMAN | Ernest, commonly was in a premium position as a slave (8) |
| INCHAINS | As a slave, perhaps, takes measure against a terrible sin (2,6) |
| PYRAMIDS | Monumental tombs of Pharaohs Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure at Giza (8) |
| EDELSTEN | Doctor who bought the Swans in 1985, Geoffrey ... (8) |
| MITCHELL | Walford newcomer who bought 1 Albert Square from Gray Atkins (5,8) |
| NALA | Character in the 2019 animated film The Lion King voiced by Beyonce as an adult and Shahadi Wright Joseph as a child (4) |
| FARO | A game of chance named after a corrupted form of "pharaoh", a figure represented on a playing card that evolved into the king of hearts (4) |
| THOMASJEFFERSON | Draughtsman of the Declaration of Independence, who nevertheless has been criticised as a slave- owner with racist views (6,9) |
| SOLOMON | ____ Northup, U.S. farmer who wrote about his time as a slave in the memoir Twelve Years A Slave (7) |
| OMPHALE | Queen of Lydia in Greek mythology who purchased Heracles as a slave (7) |
| TASKMASTER | Teacher after a job as a slave a" driver (4-6) |
| AESOP | Storyteller of the 6th century BC said to have lived as a slave on the island of Samos (5) |
| VASSAL | Against having a girl around as a slave (6) |
| NEFERTITI | Queen of the 18th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, the great royal wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten (9) |
| ANDROMACHE | Athenian tragedy by Euripides that dramatises the heroine's life as a slave after the events of the Trojan War |
| HELOT | The guy left, to return as a slave (5) |
| HARRYCOLEBOURN | A.A. Milne's 'Pooh' story roots... Canadian soldier who bought a bear cub in White River, Ontario for $20 and named her 'Winnipeg', and for short 'Winnie': 2 wds. |
| MIDDLEKINGDOM | Period of Pharaohs, with family buried in gold, dimmed in recollection |
| EGYPT | Strategy Ptolemy used in the land of Pharaohs (5) |
