| PLAGUE | Short drama retrospective, for example, about university in The Black Death (6) |
| KUBRICK | Steadfast person in pursuit of UK retrospective for director (7) |
| MATILDA | A beastly mother keeping literary retrospective for gifted child |
| EPSOM | Records second retrospective for racing venue |
| ANNUAL | Woman has a line about university in yearly publication (6) |
| PLASMA | Short drama from uplifting manuscript initially adapted for television (6) |
| HONOUR | Acclaim short drama seen in 60 Minutes (6) |
| PRAGUE | Right usurps Left in Black Death city (6) |
| EGRESS | For example, about the ship, it's on the way out |
| EARWIG | Eavesdrop, for example, about war, I fancy (6) |
| ENRAGE | Composer in a spin, for example, about to show anger |
| NYASES | Old hawks, for example, about to be housed in inadequate bird home |
| EASING | Relaxation, for example, about a moral slip (6) |
| RENEGE | French fellow for example about to go back on a promise (6) |
| EATING | Consuming, for example, about a can (6) |
| OBERAMMERGAU | Venue in southern Germany of a Passion Play performed every ten years to recall the outbreak of the Black Death there in 1633 (12) |
| FOURTEENTH | Century in which the Black Death swept Europe Here are your answers to the crossword on 'The lunch hour genealogist' pages |
| PALERMO | Santa Rosalia, who saved the city from the Black Death, is the patron saint of this capital of Sicil |
| CAFFA | Name by which the Crimean port and resort city of Feodosiya was known at the time of the Black Death |
| BUBONIC | Form of plague (rather than the pneumonic kind) that was called the Black Death |