| UNAS | Final pharaoh of the Fifth Dynasty, whose pyramid is near Cairo |
| CLEO | Final pharaoh, familiarly |
| EGYPT | Country where the Great Pyramid is |
| TOMB | The Great Pyramid is one |
| CAIRO | Which city, near the Pyramids, is the capital of Egypt? (5) |
| KHUFU | Cheops, the Pharaoh of the Great Pyramid of Giza, as he is also known |
| DEN | Pharaoh of the First Dynasty of Egypt whose mother was believed to be Merneith (3) |
| RAMSSESII | Third pharaoh of the 19th dynasty who built the rock temples at Abu Simbel (7,2) |
| TUTANKHAMEN | Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty who succeeded Akhenaton c. 1333 BC (11) |
| TUTANKHAMUN | Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty (11) |
| ANNE | A queen of the Stuart dynasty whose skill in lacemaking, or lace itself, is said to have inspired one of the names for cow-parsley (4) |
| AMENHOTEP | Name of several Egyptian pharaohs of the 18th dynasty |
| RAMSES | Name of 11 Egyptian pharaohs of the later New Kingdom period (6) |
| ROMANOV | Russian imperial dynasty whose rule ended with the overthrow of the last tsar, Nicholas II, in 1917 (7) |
| RAMESES | Name given to several pharaohs of the New Kingdom (7) |
| HATSHEPSUT | Female Pharaoh of Egypt, entombed in the Valley of the Kings (10) |
| RAMESESTHEGREAT | The third pharaoh of Egypt's 19th dynasty |
| PHIDIAS | Athenian sculptor of the 5th century BC whose statue of Zeus at Olympia (c. 430 BC) was one of the Seven Wonders of the World (7) |
| BOURBON | A scented hybrid rose; a chocolate sandwich biscuit; or, a royal dynasty whose kings included Henry of Navarre and Louis XIV (7) |
| ESTE | European dynasty whose family member Nicolo III is immortalised in Lord Byron's poem Parisina (4) |
