| ARCHIVES | Place in which public papers and historical records are kept (8) |
| ARCHIVE | Place in which public records or historical material are preserved (7) |
| ANNALS | Historical records are not quite yearly publications (6) |
| PRISON | Which public building is for the confinement of criminals (6) |
| REGISTRY | Place where official records are kept (8) |
| CASEBOOK | Where detailed writtenA records are kept by, say, doctors (8) |
| BRITTANY | Cultural area and historical county in the north-west of France (8) |
| KINGSLEY | Author of The Water-Babies as well as the children's book on Greek mythology The Heroes and historical novels including Hypatia and Westward Ho! (8) |
| CATAPULT | Children's toy and historical weapon (8) |
| LORRAINE | Cultural and historical region of north-eastern France (8) |
| FACELIFT | In reality, records are set up in surgery |
| UNBROKEN | With gun in one piece, records are yet to be beaten (8) |
| ARCHIVAL | Long-standing foe, heartless, as seen in historical records (8) |
| ARCHIVED | Filed in historical records (8) |
| ANNALIST | A writer of historical records, year-books, etc (8) |
| PLAYBACK | What records are for sport champion? |
| LANDREGISTRY | Government office where records are kept about each area of ground in a country or region (4,8) |
| FILINGCABINET | One probing affair with politicians where records are kept (6,7) |
| NILE | Major river along which most cultural and historical sites of Ancient Egypt are found |
| SUMER | Civilisation and historical region in southern Mesopotamia during the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age |
