| US | The decline and fall of the ___ empire |
| GIBBON | The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire historian (6) |
| HOGARTH | 18th-century artist whose series of eight paintings A Rake's Progress depicts the decline and fall of character Tom Rakewell (7) |
| HOUSE | Poe's "The Fall of the ___ of Usher" |
| RUPEE | 'The chapter on the Fall of the ___ you may omit. It is somewhat too sensational' (Wilde) (5) |
| HOUSEOFUSHER | The Fall Of The ____, 2023 Netflix horror series starring Carla Gugino (5,2,5) |
| WAUGH | Novelist who wrote in his satire Decline and Fall of the trials of scholar Paul Pennyfeather, wrongly sent down from Oxford after falling victim to the antics of the Bollinger Club (5) |
| INFALLIBLE | “Corruption, the most ____ symptom of constitutional liberty” (Edward Gibbon in Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire) |
| EDWARDGIBBON | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire author |
| EYSENCK | Hans ___, psychologist whose works include 1985's Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire (7) |
| EVELYN | One of the first names of the author of Decline and Fall, A Handful of Dust and Brideshead Revisited |
| EVELYNWAUGH | English journalist and author of 'Decline and Fall' (6,5) |
| LANDFALL | Journey's End the essence of Decline and Fall ? |
| AZTEC | The ____ empire was formed in 1428 as an alliance of the city states Tenochtitlan, Tetzcoco, and Tlacopan |
| INCA | The _ Empire, the largest empire in pre-Columbian America (4) |
| ABATE | Decline and Fall? (5) |
| EYELID | Going over line in Decline and Fall that affects pupil (6) |
| DROP | Give up 'Decline and Fall'? (4) |
| EVA | _ Longoria, appeared in ITV's Decline And Fall (3) |
| SINK | Decline and fall from grace with king |
