| RUMI | Persian poet whose epitaph reads "When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men" |
| MOTORBUS | Passenger vehicle; our tombs (anag.) (8) |
| GETTY | "The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights" speaker |
| MARX | Whose epitaph reads "Workers of all lands unite"? (4) |
| BLANC | Mel whose epitaph reads "That's all folks" |
| MAIZE | I enter the labyrinth but find it corny (5) |
| OBLATE | Shaped like the earth, but able to change (6) |
| RIGID | I take a grid but find it unbending |
| OMARKHAYYAM | Persian poet whose work was translated by Edward Fitzgerald (4,7) |
| WHALE | The African elephant may be the biggest animal on earth, but take a trip on a ship and you'll discover that the blue ___ is the largest in the world |
| LONGBREDY | We need to find a lodger by the beginning of November, when we are moving to a village in Dorset (4,5) |
| LEAR | Shakespeare character who says "When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools" |
| HOLYSEPULCHRE | In the New Testament, the tomb in which the body of Christ was laid after the Crucifixion (4,9) |
| HEREDITARY | "When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not ___" (Thomas Paine, Common Sense) |
| TUT | Boy with a tomb in the Valley of the Kings |
| ENGRAVED | Chased the tomb, in the end (8) |
| ISAAC | Biblical figure with a tomb in the Cave of the Patriarchs |
| TORME | Mel whose epitaph says, "Music, the greatest good that mortals know / And all of heaven we have below" |
| SECOND | Unit of time once based on the orbital period of Earth but now the transition in caesium; a gearbox ratio; or, a duellist's attendant (6) |
| ELEMENT | It can heat up when we are enjoying our work (7) |
