| ARGOS | Ancient city state, dominant in the Peloponnese until the rise of Spartan power (5) |
| FIFTHREPUBLIC | European state's dominant troops and people |
| LADON | River in the Peloponnese peninsula of Greece that rises on the western slope of the Aroania mountain, near the village of Kastria |
| AZTEC | Member of the Nahuatl speaking people dominant in Mexico before the Spanish conquest of the 16th century (5) |
| ASSYR | Ancient city state on the River Tigris that was the first or traditional capital of the Assyrian emp |
| ALPHA | Dominant, in the pack |
| CORINTH | A port in the Peloponnese region of Greece; an ancient city-state (7) |
| MAYAS | Ancient city-state dwellers |
| HYDRA | Greek Aegean island, close to the Peloponnese (5) |
| REIGN | Be dominant in Niger, maybe (5) |
| THING | Feeble dominant in C is a problem (5) |
| EPAMINONDAS | Who, one of the greatest military tacticians, led the Ancient Greek city-state of Thebes out of Spartan subjugation? (11) |
| WOOLLEY | Ur, an ancient city-state situated between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers, is mentioned in the Book of Genesis, but it remained unidentified until the mid-19th century. In 1922, this archaeologis |
| ARCADIA | Mountainous department in the Peloponnese of southern Greece, associated in ancient times with the gods Hermes and Pan (7) |
| ANISE | Flavor dominant in absinthe |
| MYCENAE | Late Bronze Age Greek city in the Peloponnese that was "rich in gold", according to Homer (7) |
| SPARTA | Ancient Greek city in the Peloponnese (6) |
| POP | Type of music dominant in the Victorian home ! (3) |
| NITROGEN | Charlie understood unfinished note that's dominant in the air |
| CARTHAGE | Ancient city state on the coast of North Africa that fought Rome in the three Punic Wars of 264-241, 218-201 and 149-146 BC (8) |
