| ETRURIA | Ancient region of Italy, roughly corresponding to modern Tuscany |
| ETRUSCAN | Native of ancient area of Italy corresponding to modern Tuscany (8) |
| DACIA | Ancient region of SE Europe roughly corresponding to modern-day Romania, annexed by Trajan c. 106 AD as a province of the Roman Empire (5) |
| PHOENICIA | Ancient land of sea traders, roughly corresponding to modern Lebanon (9) |
| MINOR | Term applied historically to an area of Asia roughly corresponding to modern Anatolia (5) |
| ASIAMINOR | Region of the ancient world, roughly corresponding to the present-day Turkish peninsula of Anatolia (4,5) |
| CANAANITE | A member of an ancient Semitic people who occupied the region roughly corresponding to Israel before the Israelite conquest (9) |
| IBERIA | An ancient geographical region south of the Caucasus Mountains, roughly corresponding to present-day Georgia |
| TIME | Division roughly corresponding to 15 degrees of longitude except that France covers 12 of them, Russia 11 and China only 1 (4,4) |
| NUMIDIA | Ancient Roman name for the part of North Africa roughly corresponding to present-day Algeria (7) |
| ICENI | Ancient British tribe inhabiting an area roughly corresponding to Norfolk and Suffolk (5) |
| LUSITANIA | Roman province corresponding to modern Portugal (9) |
| ADAR | Month, roughly corresponding to March, in the Hebrew calendar (4) |
| ROSETTA | Ancient Egyptian discovery fundamental to modern understanding of hieroglyphics, the ... Stone |
| GAUL | An ancient region of Western Europe corresponding to present day Northern Italy, France, Belgium, part of Germany and the Southern Netherlands (4) |
| SECOND | Unit of time defined as "the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom" (6) |
| SPHAIRISTIKE | This ancient Greek sport is considered to be the precursor to modern-day tennis. (12) |
| APEMAN | Extinct apelike primate thought to be related to modern man (6) |
| ADMINISTER | Apply to modern-day member of the government (10) |
| ADJUST | Acclimatise to modern times, to be fair (6) |
