| CLAUDIUS | Fourth emperor of Rome (41-54 AD), thought to have been poisoned by his fourth wife, Agrippina (8) |
| ICLAUDIUS | Historical novel by English writer Robert Graves that deals with the life of the fourth emperor of Rome (1,8) |
| ANNE | The forename of Henry VIII's second wife and also his fourth wife (4) |
| TASTER | He had little to eat and might have been poisoned (6) |
| BREE | Summer Bay medic who thinks John and Marilyn have been poisoned (4,7) |
| CAMERON | Summer Bay medic who thinks John and Marilyn have been poisoned (4,7) |
| NERO | Roman emperor who succeeded Claudius in 54 AD |
| TOM | ___ Arnold split from his 4th wife (3) |
| OCTAVIAN | Familiar name of Augustus, first emperor of Rome, prior to the start of his reign in 27 BC (8) |
| AURELIAN | Emperor of Rome from 270 to 275, awarded the title Restitutor Orbis ('Restorer of the World') by the Senate (8) |
| CALIGULA | Byname of Gaius Caesar Germanicus, the third emperor of Rome (37-41 AD), meaning 'little boot' (8) |
| TIBERIUS | Second emperor of Rome (14-37 AD), succeeded by his adopted son Caligula (8) |
| HABAKKUK | Eighth of the twelve minor prophetic books of the Old Testament, thought to have been written in the late 7th century BC (8) |
| VALERIAN | Emperor of Rome from 253 to 260, succeeded by his son Gallienus (8) |
| ETONMESS | English summer dessert thought to have been first mentioned in print by Arthur Beavan in 1896 (4,4) |
| AUGSBURG | City at the junction of the Wertach and Lech rivers in Bavaria, S Germany, named after the first emperor of Rome (8) |
| POSEIDON | Greek sea god had been poisoned in error (8) |
| BELIEVED | Thought to have been convinced (8) |
| AUGUSTUS | First emperor of Rome (27 BC-AD 14), originally named Gaius Octavius (8) |
| AUGUSTAN | Of the first emperor of Rome (8) |
