| POPEJOAN | Pontiff and scholar who, according to medieval legend, gave birth during a procession |
| SANDMAN | A Metallica fan gave birth during a live rendition of Enter _ in Brazil (7) |
| POPEYE | Pontiff and you, once, and Bluto's adversary |
| LAERTES | King of legend gave prize back (7) |
| PRENATAL | Before birth; during or relating to pregnancy (8) |
| PETRARCH | 14th Century Italian lyric poet and scholar who gave his name to a sonnet form (8) |
| ISIDORE | Saint and scholar who compiled the 20-book encyclopaedia Etymologiae, which includes subjects ranging from agriculture and angels to arithmetic and astronomy (7) |
| BEDE | Venerable -; Anglo-Saxon monk and scholar who wrote Ecclesiastical History of the English People (4) |
| GOETHE | German poet and scholar who wrote the play Faust (6) |
| LINACRE | Thomas ___, English doctor and scholar who founded London's Royal College of Physicians in 1518 (7) |
| DAVINCI | Leonardo, artist and scholar who completed his painting The Last Supper in 1498 (2,5) |
| BACON | Roger -, English Franciscan monk and scholar who died in 1294 (5) |
| HOLYGRAIL | According to one set of medieval legends, what was brought by angels, guarded on the top of a mountain by a group of pure knights and would vanish if approached by anyone impure? (4,5) |
| ASCHAM | Scholar who dedicated his treatise Toxophilus to Henry VIII and, in return, was rewarded by said king with a royal pension and further honour of being assigned tutor to Prince Edward and Princess Eliz |
| BLACKMORE | Victorian poet, orchardist and scholar who penned 14 novels including his tale of 17th-century Exmoor titled Lorna Doone (9) |
| CHANDLER | Person who supplied candles and soap to medieval households (8) |
| APIGINAPOKE | A King, a Pope and I pooled together to make ill-considered purchase |
| HAMELIN | Medieval legend of rats appearing and children disappearing, The Pied Piper Of ... |
| ISOLDE | (medieval legend) Irish princess daughter of the King of Britanny married to Tristram |
| SPELT | Type of wheat, a staple food in Europe from the Bronze Age to medieval times |
