| SUNGOD | Ra, to ancient Egyptians (2 words) |
| SCARAB | Sacred beetle to ancient Egyptians (6) |
| ATEN | Sun disk, to ancient Egyptians |
| IBIS | Wading bird sacred to ancient Egyptians (4) |
| WARGOD | Anhur, to Ancient Egyptians |
| ALOES | Plants of immortality, to ancient Egyptians |
| SCARABS | Beetles sacred to ancient Egyptians |
| ISIS | Daughter of Geb, to ancient Egyptians |
| ALOE | "Plant of immortality," to ancient Egyptians |
| SUN | What the dung beetle's ball of dung represented, to ancient Egyptians (3) |
| BIRDGOD | Horus, to ancient Egyptians |
| PHARAOH | Word used to refer to Ancient Egyptian rulers such as Tutankhamun and Ramesses II |
| NILE | Flowing some 4,100 miles, river whose annual flooding was central to ancient Egyptian civilisations and their three-season calendar (4) |
| OSIRIS | Pluto, to the ancient Egyptians |
| ONION | Vegetable worshipped by the ancient Egyptians as a symbol of eternal life due to its internal concen |
| LINEN | Used by the ancient Egyptians to wrap Tutankhamun's mummy and by Matilda as the ground fabric for the Bayeux Tapestry, a textile woven from flax (5) |
| LEEK | Eaten by the ancient Egyptians, purportedly a favourite of Nero and worn into battle by the Welsh, a vegetable or allium related to the onion and shallot (4) |
| PAPER | Invented 2,000 years ago during the Han dynasty by Cai Lun, material that replaced the papyrus of the ancient Egyptians and parchment/vellum (5) |
| BREAD | Baked food whose sourdough variey dates back to the ancient Egyptians (S) |
| LIMESTONE | Ancient Egyptians turned this sort of rock into ostraca, on which they scribbled notes or sketched. Ancient Greeks used them too. |
