| EGYPTIAN | "Gypsy" comes from what word, once thought to be the race of all gypsies? (8) |
| ROMANY | What is the language spoken by an ethnic group which originated in northern India, but are now usually called gypsies? (6) |
| EMPIRE | My fave Brit film mag (which, natch, comes from what was called the British ______). |
| DEMIJOHN | French dame-jeanne is thought to be the origin of the name of what large bulbous bottle? (8) |
| ALDERNEY | Island separated from the Cap de la Hague, France by the Race of ___ (8) |
| PILTDOWN | ___ Man, hoax skull once thought to be the missing link between apes and humans (8) |
| BARNACLE | Crustacean once thought to be the origin of certain geese |
| SVETLANA | __ Krivonogikh, former cleaner thought to be the mother of one of 5 children (8) |
| SYCAMINE | Tree mentioned in Luke 17:6 in the Bible thought to be the black mulberry (8) |
| MANDRAKE | Plant with a humanlike root, once thought to be an aphrodisiac (8) |
| DAMASCUS | City thought to be the world's oldest continually inhabited capital (8) |
| PATRICIA | Hurricane __, thought to be the strongest recorded in 2015 (8) |
| SEAHOLLY | European coastal plant once thought to be an aphrodisiac |
| NOBLEGAS | Peer regarded as hilarious here was once thought to be inert |
| EOHIPPUS | Dog-sized creature thought to be the horse's earliest ancestor |
| BIRTHDAY | Based on a tune written by sisters Patty and Mildred Hill in 1893, thought to be the highest-earning song in |
| 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) |
