| EOLITHS | From the Greek meaning "dawn stones", chipped flints originally thought to have been the earliest stone tools (7) |
| EAST | From the Greek meaning "dawn", the direction of the rising Sun (4) |
| ADZE | Hand tool for shaping wood. One of the earliest tools, it was widely distributed in Stone Age cultures in the form of a handheld stone chipped to form a blade. (4) |
| EOLITH | Dawn stone |
| BURIAL | The six plank-lined Anglo-Saxon graves found by the River Wensum are thought to be the earliest known such site in Britain (6) |
| LEPCHA | The ____ or Rongkup people are believed to be the earliest inhabitants of India's state of Sikkim |
| ITHACA | Greek island in the Ionian Sea thought to have been the home of Homer's Odysseus (6) |
| NONES | Dates in the Roman calendar thought originally to have been the day of the half moon |
| 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) |
| PLUTO | Icy dwarf planet, originally thought to be ninth planet from the sun |
| AURORA | From the Latin meaning "dawn", a phenomenon caused as the result of escaped charged particles from the solar wind colliding with atoms in Earth's magnetosphere (6) |
| 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) |
| IXION | King of the Lapiths in Thessaly said to have been the ancestor of the centaurs (5) |
| UNDERACT | Foreign articles Bill originally thought to be ham? Quite the opposite (8) |
| ADALOVELACE | Lord Byron's daughter, a writer and mathematician who is often thought to have been the first computer programmer (3,8) |
| ILIAD | Ancient Greek epic poem thought to have been penned in the 8th century, The _ (5) |
| EO | Derived from the Greek word "eos" meaning "dawn", what word element means "early" or "primeval"? (2) |
| 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) |
| SIMONPETER | One of the Twelve Apostles, considered by Catholics to have been the first pope (5,5) |
