| CASCA | Publius Servilius ___ Longus, popularly thought to be the first of the assassins to stab Julius Caesar (5) |
| NES | The ___ longus is an orangespotted goby fish (3) |
| BRAVO | A hired assassin to say well done! to (5) |
| WHITMAN | Poet hired assassin to follow wife |
| STARK | Adventure-woman and travel writer whose first major book The Valleys of the Assassins was published in 1934 (5) |
| MELROSE | ___ Abbey in the Scottish Borders, thought to be the burial location of the heart of Robert the Bruce (7) |
| CASSIUS | Senator who was one of the assassins of Julius Caesar |
| BRUTUS | Name one of the assassins of Julius Caesar (6) |
| OAK | According to tradition, what tree was associated with the god of thunder because it was thought to be the tree most likely to be hit by lightning? (3) |
| PLYMOUTHROCK | Boulder on the coast of Massachusetts traditionally thought to be the landing place of the Pilgrim Fathers in 1620 |
| VITAE | He has power of life and death over his people, ____ necisque in suos habet potestatem, vide Caes. B.G. 1.16.5 (of the chief magistrate of the Aedui)) ... |
| FREYA | Whose books include The Valleys Of The Assassins (1934) |
| QUASAR | One of a number of astronomical bodies thought to be the most luminous objects in the universe |
| DEMIJOHN | French dame-jeanne is thought to be the origin of the name of what large bulbous bottle? (8) |
| WILLIAMCAXTON | Merchant and writer, thought to be the first person to introduce a printing press to England (7,6) |
| SYRIA | Country that was home to the Ebla library, thought to be the world's first (2500 B.C.) |
| OSWALD | Surname of the assassin of President John F. Kennedy (6) |
| WINT | Accomplice of the assassin Kidd in Ian Fleming's James Bond novel Diamonds Are Forever (1956) (4) |
| DAPHNISANDCHLOE | The only known work of the 2nd century AD Greek novelist Longus |
| ARCHAEOPTERYX | The genus of feathered dinosaur that was once thought to be the oldest known fossil bird. Fossils are known from specimens found in the Solnhofen Limestone Formation in Bavaria, Germany, starting in 1 |
