| LUXOR | City on the Nile in southern Egypt, on the site of ancient Thebes (5) |
| ASWANHIGHDAM | Construction on the Nile, in southern Egypt (5,4,3) |
| THEBES | Ancient city of upper Egypt. on the site of modern Luxor (6) |
| ASWAN | What is the name of the great dam built on the Nile in the 1960s? (5) |
| TUNIS | It was a Roman city on the north coast of Africa, near the site of ancient Carthage. It was occupied by the Germans in 1942 and liberated by Allied troops in 1943. In The Tempest (act 2, scene 1), Seb |
| DEATH | Possibly hated mystery on the Nile in Poirot story (5) |
| PETER | English actor, writer and dramatist who played Hercule Poirot six times, beginning with Death on the Nile in 1978 (5,7) |
| GAUL | Village in Egypt on the Nile that occupies part of the site of ancient Thebes (6) |
| KARNAK | Village in Egypt on the Nile that occupies part of the site of ancient Thebes (6) |
| ASYUT | Ancient city in central Egypt on the River Nile. (5) |
| CAIRO | The capital city of Egypt, on the River Nile (5) |
| NUBIA | Ancient kingdom in the Nile River valley oi southern Egypt and northern Sudan (5) |
| BRUCE | Scottish explorer, archaeologist and linguist best known for tracing the origins of the Blue Nile in |
| ASSOUAN | An ancient city on the Nile in Egypt. |
| ABOUKIRBAY | Site of the Battle of the Nile in which Nelson defeated the French (7,3) |
| BRANAGH | Kenneth ___, actor and director who returned as Hercule Poirot in Death On The Nile in October (7) |
| DOGSTAR | Its rising signaled the flooding of the Nile in ancient Egypt |
| USTINOV | English actor, writer and dramatist who played Hercule Poirot six times, beginning with Death on the Nile in 1978 (5,7) |
| ABUSIMBEL | A former village in southern Egypt; site of two temples of Rameses II (3,6) |
| RODA | Island on the Nile in Cairo |
