| SEVERN | British river known to the ancient Romans as Sabrina and in Welsh as Hafren (6) |
| ALICANTE | Port city of SE Spain known to the ancient Romans as Lucentum ('City of Light') (8) |
| ORMOND | Julia _, actress famed for Sabrina and First Knight (6) |
| SABRINA | Latin name of Welsh goddess Hafren, by which the River Severn was originally known |
| AARE | River known to the ancients as Obringa |
| URAL | 1,575-mile river known to some locals as the Zhayyq |
| AGNOMEN | A fourth name given to some ancient Romans as an honour (7) |
| MUSCLE | Word, from Latin for "little mouse" due to the ancient Romans' comparison of flexed biceps to mice, for one of the contractile organs of the body, synonymous with strength (6) |
| THAMES | "Old Father" river known in Oxford as the Isis and described in Jerome K Jerome's Three Men in a Boat (6) |
| MAYDAY | Traditional spring festival known to the ancient Celts as Beltane (3,3) |
| GALLON | Imperial -; unit of volume equivalent to the ancient Roman congius (6) |
| SELENE | Mythological Greek goddess of the Moon, known to the Romans as Luna (6) |
| PALLAS | She is the goddess of wisdom and of war, handicraft, and practical reason. The ancient Romans connected her with Minerva. In Titus Andronicus (act 4, scene 1), Marcus Andronicus says, "Apollo, ___, Jo |
| AENEAS | Trojan hero, lover of Dido, and progenitor of the ancient Romans, according to legend (6) |
| EXETER | Devon city, founded by the Romans as Isca in the first century AD (6) |
| LAUREL | Leaves the ancient Romans fashioned into a wreath to symbolize victory (6) |
| ITCHEN | Hampshire river known for water vole, white-clawed crayfish and brook lamprey (6) |
| ZURICH | Swiss city known to the Romans as Turicum (6) |
| ERRATA | Mistakes of the ancient Romans? (6) |
| TEUTON | Foe of the ancient Romans |
