| CONFUCIUS | Philosopher who died around 2500 years ago (9) |
| LUCRETIUS | Roman poet and philosopher who died around 55 BC (9) |
| PALESTINE | Area of the eastern Mediterranean thought to have been named by Greeks around 2500 years ago (9) |
| CROESUS | King of Lydia around 2500 years ago, whose name has become a byword for extreme wealth (7) |
| STSTEPHEN | Christian martyr who died around 35 AD: 2 words |
| ARISTOTLE | Greek philosopher who died in 322 BC (9) |
| NICE | Second largest French city on the Mediterranean, founded by Greeks 2500 years ago (4) |
| PERSIA | Country which, 2500 years ago, had the world's largest empire to that time, including Egypt and Turkey (6) |
| ODESSA | Ukraine's third-largest city, inhabited since Greeks settled there more than 2500 years ago (6) |
| OLD | 2500 years, for sequoias |
| ADEN | Port of Yemen, a trading centre for more than 2500 years (4) |
| DISMEMBERED | Taken apart, died around those who belong somehow (11) |
| DOGGED | Persistent old magistrate died around midnight (6) |
| WINDOW | A look-out for woman whose husband died around the North (6) |
| DEDICATION | Commitment died around about First Amendment into action (10) |
| ARNOLD | Poet, Italian flower, died around lake |
| DINED | Had dinner and died around the north (5) |
| DIMMED | Became faint and died around the year two thousand (6) |
| HEGEL | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich ___, German idealist philosopher who died in 1831 (5) |
| KANT | Immanuel ___, German idealist philosopher who died in 1804 (4) |
