| PASSU | Gradu; “____ processit anili [Hecuba]” Ovid Met 13.533, with an elderly gait |
| AIAX | Qui moriturus dixit, “ne quisquam Aiacem possit superare nisi ____” (Ovid Met. 13.390) |
| NIL | Nihil in anili corde invenitur |
| MODICO | To go with measured step: ____ gradu ire, Plautus Poenulus 522 |
| CONVALESCENT | Being patient and gradu- ally improving (12) |
| PIERCE | An almost certainly false rumour claims this president ran over an elderly woman with his horse or carriage |
| IVANHOE | “____ by Sir Walter Scott” is an anagram of “A novel by a Scottish writer” |
| CHRISTMASCAROL | A ___ novella by Charles Dickens that deals with the story of Ebenezer Scrooge an elderly miser: 2 wds. |
| WIDOWSPEEK | Quick glance from an elderly dowager with a receding hairline? |
| SIPPINGONAGLASSOFWINE | An elderly woman was having dinner with her husband and was ... |
| AGEIST | Which term describes an attitude that stereotypes an elderly person (6) |
| BOG | “____ moss” is an informal name for sphagnum |
| ONAPAR | “____ with” means “equivalent to” |
| CASSANDRA | In Greek mythology, daughter of Priam and Hecuba endowed with the gift of prophecy (9) |
| HELENUS | Son of Priam and Hecuba in Greek mythology who was gifted with prophetic powers (7) |
| AGITPROP | “____ / sticks / in my teeth too, / and I’d rather / compose / romances for you” (Vladimir Mayakovsky) |
| FORALL | “In spite of”, especially in the phrase “____ that” |
| MATERNAS | Aeneas recognised doves :“____ agnovit aves” (Aen 6.193), his mother’s birds |
| ROTTENEGG | Idiomatically, the last person to do something is a “____” |
| TIMEPASSES | “____, and we shall soon laugh no longer” (Belloc, The Path to Rome) |
