| EGYPTIAN | "Gypsy" comes from what word, once thought to be the race of all gypsies? (8) |
| EMPIRE | My fave Brit film mag (which, natch, comes from what was called the British ______). |
| 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 |
| GREATWALLOFCHINA | Barrier once thought to be the only man-made object visible from the Moon (5.4.2.5) |
| 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) |
| GLOBE | Word once used to describe a cannonball, comet, eyeball, mass of people or almost anything spherical, later the more specific ball-shaped map of Earth or the heavens (5) |
| SPLEEN | Malice was once thought to be the seat of melancholy (6) |
| BARNACLE | Crustacean once thought to be the origin of certain geese |
| ATOM | It was once thought to be the smallest particle of matter |
| ELVES | In The Lord of the Rings, the race of Arwen, Legolas, and Galadriel (5) |
| MELROSE | ___ Abbey in the Scottish Borders, thought to be the burial location of the heart of Robert the Bruce (7) |
| MESS | Word once used for a portion of food or a set of four served together at a medieval banquet, hence a group of military personnel who eat together or the meal so taken (4) |
| ANSWERS | Word once meaning gainsaid or sworn against, now acknowledgements, explanations, puzzle solutions, replies to questions, resolutions to problems or unravellings on the closing pages of quiz books (7) |
| POTTAGE | Word, once synonymous with oatmeal porridge, for a thick soup or stew traditionally prepared from veg or herbs harvested from one's kitchen garden forage - from beans, beets and broccoli to bay leaves |
| DEMIJOHN | French dame-jeanne is thought to be the origin of the name of what large bulbous bottle? (8) |
| NOME | Any one of the race of tiny people in Terry Pratchett's Bromeliad Trilogy; an Alaskan gold-mining city; or, each of the 42 territorial divisions in ancient Egypt (4) |
| ARDEN | Old Warwickshire forest once thought to be the setting for As You Like It (5) |
| NANDADEVI | Indian mountain once thought to be the world’s highest |
| PILTDOWN | ___ Man, hoax skull once thought to be the missing link between apes and humans (8) |
| ALDERNEY | Island separated from the Cap de la Hague, France by the Race of ___ (8) |
