| MARKANTONY | Roman general under Julius Caesar who was the lover of Cleopatra, queen of Egypt (4,6) |
| ANTONY | In the Shakespeare play, who was the lover of Cleopatra? (6) |
| CORNER | Angle taken by a Caesar who was academic, or Nero (6) |
| CLEOPATRA | Queen who was the lover of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony (9) |
| LANCELOT | In Arthurian legend, Knight of the Round Table who was the lover of Queen Guinevere (8) |
| CALYPSO | What name connects a style of West Indian music to a nymph of Greek myth who was the lover of Odysseus? (7) |
| AENEAS | Who was the lover of Dido in Greek and Roman mythology? (6) |
| LYSIMACHUS | General under Alexander the Great |
| ACIS | Sicilian shepherd who was the lover of Galatea in Ovid's Metamorphoses (4) |
| BRUTUS | In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, who is the last to stab Caesar and inflicts the fatal wound? (6) |
| RASPUTIN | Boney M said this person, Russia's greatest love machine, was the lover of the Russian queen (ra ra! |
| ANDCLEOPATRA | Tragedy by William Shakespeare about the relationship between a Roman general and the Queen of Egypt (6,3,9) |
| IMOGENECOCA | Comedy partner of Sid Caesar who won a 1952 Emmy for Your Show of Shows: 2 wds. |
| NARSES | Byzantine general under Emperor Justinian I whose greatest achievement was the conquest of the Ostro |
| ASP | The cobra that killed queen of Egypt Cleopatra in 30BC (3) |
| NEFERTITI | Second most famous Queen of Egypt after Cleopatra, Great Royal Wife of Akhenaten (9) |
| RODNEY | Caesar who's pictured on the Delaware state quarter |
| PERICLES | Athenian statesman and general under whose aegis the Parthenon was built, from 447 BC (8) |
| ANTONYM | Lover of Cleopatra many, at first, love to hate? |
| SID | Caesar who wasn't an emperor |
