| CARTHAGE | Dido was queen of this ancient city (8) |
| SHEBA | According to the Bible, Solomon's royal visitor was the queen of this ancient kingdom |
| LAODICEA | 8/9 - in the case of this ancient city of Asia Minor, the Lycus (8) |
| ASSYRIAN | Nineveh was the capital of this ancient empire (8) |
| ISABELLA | The second one was queen of Spain at the age of three (8) |
| MARGARET | Saint who was queen of Scotland |
| CORINTH | Initially raking in money, half of this ancient city (7) |
| ANTIOCH | Antakya is the Turkish name of this ancient city (7) |
| DESTROYER | One dispatches ungulates crossing east part of this ancient city |
| EGYPT | Nefertiti was queen of this country (5) |
| ICENI | Boudicca was queen of this tribe (5) |
| ACHILLES | Your weak spot might be described as the heel of this ancient Greek warrior |
| TALKSHOW | Oprah Winfrey is the queen of this television genre (4,4) |
| HATFIELD | ___ House, Hertfordshire seat of the Cecil family, where Elizabeth I was told she was Queen (8) |
| ELEANOR | Duchess of Aquitaine who was queen of France, then queen of England, mother of Richard the Lionheart (7) |
| EGYPTIAN | Ra was the sun god in this ancient mythology (8) |
| SPARTANS | The first recorded use of cryptography for correspondence was used as early as 400 BCE by this ancient people, who employed a cipher device called the scatale for secret communication between military |
| OLEASTER | Also known as the wild olive, this ancient tree can still be found growing in parts of Mallorca, though it is more common to see its slightly more modern counterpart (8) |
| MYCENAE | Agamemnon was king of this ancient Greek city (7) |
| RIDGEWAY | Day I grew shaky on this ancient trail? (8) |
