| AMENHOTEP | ___ I, is reputed to be the Egyptian pharaoh who founded the tomb workers' village at Deir el-Medina (9) |
| MENES | Pharaoh who founded the first dynasty of Egypt and is believed to have introduced the ritual of god |
| RAMESES | Aries points repeatedly to Egyptian pharaoh who held the Israelites in thrall (7) |
| HENRYI | Youngest son of William the Conqueror who is reputed to have died from a "surfeit of lampreys" (5,1) |
| CARMARTHEN | A market town in West Wales, near to which the wizard Merlin is reputed to have been born (10) |
| CHEOPS | Egyptian pharaoh who commissioned the Great Pyramid of Giza (6) |
| THEODOSIUS | Emperor ___ I is often credited with holding the last recorded ancient Olympic games |
| RAMSESI | Pharaoh who founded Egypt's 19th dynasty |
| SELBY | Town in North Yorkshire, on the river Ouse, reputed to be the birthplace of Henry I (5) |
| TOBAGO | Caribbean island reputed to be the inspiration for Robinson Crusoe that is the site of Nylon Pool named by Princess Margaret (6) |
| IMHOTEP | Chief minister of the Egyptian pharaoh Djoser (2630-2611 BC), posthumously identified with Asclepius, the Greek god of medicine (7) |
| NEFERTITI | The chief consort of the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten (9) |
| LARISSA | Regional capital in central Greece (pop 160,000), reputed to be the birthplace of Achilles (7) |
| SUPPOSEDLY | Believed or reputed to be the case (10) |
| TREVOR | Villain who's terrorising the people of Hollyoaks village at the moment (6,5) |
| GRASMERE | Cumbria village at the centre of the Lake District in which William and Dorothy Wordsworth lived from 1799 (8) |
| SIAM | Anna and the King of ___ (title of the novel The King and I is based on) |
| SCOTA | Daughter of an Egyptian pharaoh and ancestor of the Gaels (connected to the Stone of Scone legend) |
| TUTANKHAMEN | Egyptian pharaoh (14th century BC) whose virtually intact tomb was discovered in the Valley of the Kings in 1922 (11) |
| EDALE | Village at the southern end of the Pennine Way |