| ARMIGER | Armour-bearer, as Charinus says of himself, Pl. Mercator 852 |
| AGENDAE | Res ____: things to be done, Pl. Mercator 118 |
| AQUARIUS | Which zodiac sign has the water bearer as its symbol? (8) |
| GUPPY | PlusWord No 852 |
| LAME | Foolish excuse, as Trump says of Biden: unable to walk the walk? (4) |
| PEGASUS | It is described at the winged horse that sprang from the blood of Medusa when killed by Perseus. In Henry IV, Part 1 (act 4, scene 1), the Dauphin says of this horse: "To turn and wind a fiery ___ / A |
| SIRORACLE | In 1.1, Gratiano is speaking to Antonio and trying to bolster him with humour when he says, "Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit, As who should say, 'I am ___ ___, And when I ope my lips let no dog b |
| ATLAS | Word for a book or collection of maps that was coined by geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator as a tribute to a Titan of the same name (5) |
| VENTIMIGLIA | Actor Milo who says of his "This Is Us" character's onscreen death, "I'm truly heartbroken" |
| ACRE | Part of earth surface Mercator showed in reverse (4) |
| MAP | What type of object is the Mercator projection? (3) |
| AREA | What a Mercator projection map notably distorts |
| DUEEAST | To the right, on a Mercator projection |
| MAPS | Some works by Gerardus Mercator (4) |
| MAPPED | What Mercator did |
| RHUMB | A ____ line, which intersects all meridians at the same angle, is a straight line on a chart using the Mercator projection |
| UTM | Universal Transverse Mercator |
| TOAD | In The Wind In The Willows he sang, of himself, "The clever men at Oxford; Know all that there is to be knowed; But they none of them know one half as much; As intelligent Mr ..." |
| MULE | Emu lecturer made a bit of an ass of himself (4) |
| PROPHECY | It's a prediction in favour of himself getting into political correctness before end of July (8) |
