| ARMAND | Character in The Vampire Chronicles novels by Anne Rice born in the late 15th Century to the hunter Ivan |
| SCORE | One of the Rutshire Chronicles novels by Jilly Cooper; or, the points accumulated in games or sports (5) |
| ORION | Alternatively, no one comes back to The Hunter (5) |
| ARMET | Medieval helmet with a visor and neck guard, developed in the fifteenth century to replace the basinet (5) |
| BOSCH | Hieronymus -, fifteenth century to sixteenth century artist |
| INTERVIEW | - with the Vampire; gothic horror novel by Anne Rice adapted into a film (9) |
| WALPOLE | Author of the Herries Chronicles novels set in the Lake District comprising Rogue Herries, Judith Paris, The Fortress and Vanessa (7) |
| INTERVIEWWITHTHEVAMPIRE | 1976 gothic horror novel by Anne Rice |
| COOPER | Author of the Rutshire Chronicles novels including Riders, Rivals and Polo (6) |
| SISTINE | The ____ Chapel is named after the pope for whom it was built, in the late 15th century |
| AULICCOUNCIL | Judicial body of the Holy Roman Empire organized by Maximilian I in the late 15th century |
| MIDDLEENGLISH | The language of parts of Britain from the Norman Conquest until the late 15th Century (6,7) |
| OBRECHT | Most famous composer of masses in the late 15th century, d.1505 (7) |
| LESTAT | Main character in "The Vampire Chronicles" |
| VESPUCCI | Navigator Amerigo, who made voyages to the New World in the late 15th and early 16th centuries (8) |
| LAST | The ___ Supper a late 15th-century painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci which is housed in a convent in Milan Italy |
| THEBLACKARROW | Which novel by Robert Louis Stevenson is set in late 15th Century England during the War of the Roses? (3,5,5) |
| MIDDLEAGES | The period of history from the 5th to the late 15th centuries (6,4) |
| HEERLEN | Industrial city in the SE Netherlands; a major coalmining centre from the late 19th-century to the early 1970s (7) |
| RUNES | The characters of an ancient Germanic alphabet, in use, especially in Scandinavia, from the 3rd Century to the Middle Ages (5) |
