| EDWARDDEVERE | Elizabethan courtier-poet and 17th Earl of Oxford rumoured to have been the author of Shakespeare's plays (6,2,4) |
| MALWARE | Semi-formal wear, rumoured to have been designed with malevolent intent |
| EARL | 17th ___ of Oxford, author of Shakespeare's plays, by some accounts |
| VERE | Edward de _, 17th Earl of Oxford; Lord Great Chamberlain to Elizabeth I (4) |
| LUKE | He is traditionally said to be the author of the third and fifth books of the New Testament (4) |
| LEDA | Moon that was discovered in 1974 and named for a woman in Greek myth who was believed to have been the mother (by Zeus, who had seduced her in the form of a swan) of Pollux and of Helen (4) |
| WHITE | Author of the Arthurian epic The Once and Future King, whose greatest love is said to have been the pet Irish setter he called Brownie (5) |
| IXION | King of the Lapiths in Thessaly said to have been the ancestor of the centaurs (5) |
| ILIAD | Homer is held to be the author of the Odyssey and which other major epic poem? (5) |
| GARTH | The -; mountain on the outskirts of Cardiff said to have been the inspiration for The Englishman Who Went up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (5) |
| ONION | Bulb vegetable said to have been the staple food of Diogenes the Cynic, the Greek philosopher who lived in a wine barrel or tub according to legend (5) |
| BORA | Identify the first name of this Serbian who is the only person to have been the manager of five different countries in five consecutive World Cups. (4) |
| NONES | Dates in the Roman calendar thought originally to have been the day of the half moon |
| CRETE | Largest and most populous island of Greece, said to have been the birthplace of Zeus (5) |
| ANASTASIA | The daughter of the Russian tsar who was rumoured to have survived the executions at Ekaterinburg in |
| SIMONPETER | One of the Twelve Apostles, considered by Catholics to have been the first pope (5,5) |
| ITHACA | Greek island in the Ionian Sea thought to have been the home of Homer's Odysseus (6) |
| SIDNEY | Elizabethan courtier and poet who wrote Astrophel and Stella and Arcadia (6) |
| KRAKATOA | The eruption of which volcanic island in 1883 is believed to have been the loudest noise heard in modern history? (8) |
| EOLITHS | From the Greek meaning "dawn stones", chipped flints originally thought to have been the earliest stone tools (7) |
