| ICLAUDIUS | Historical novel by English writer Robert Graves that deals with the life of the fourth emperor of R |
| RAVAGER | He lays waste to a grave that could be about right (7) |
| NEWTESTAMENT | Part of the Bible dealing with the life of Christ (3,9) |
| MEMOIR | Turns up somewhere for the Italians welcoming one Frenchman with The Life of Brian, for example (6) |
| CLAUDIUS | Fourth emperor of Rome (41-54 AD), thought to have been poisoned by his fourth wife, Agrippina (8) |
| GEODESY | The branch of science that deals with the measurement of the size and shape of the Earth (7) |
| HOWARDSEND | Novel by English writer E. M. Forster adapted into a 1992 film of the same name (7,3) |
| PHONETICS | A branch of linguistics that deals with the study of the sounds or pronunciation of human speech (9) |
| THREEMENINABOAT | Humorous 1889 novel by English writer Jerome K. Jerome about an outing on the Thames (5,3,2,1,4) |
| METAPHYSICS | The branch of philosophy that deals with the principles of being and knowing (11) |
| ONTOLOGY | The branch of metaphysics that deals with the nature and principles of existence and pure being (8) |
| PODIATRIST | Specialist doctor that deals with the bones of the foot and mechanics of walking (10) |
| NEUROLOGY | Branch of medicine that deals with the anatomy, functions and organic disorders of nerves and the nervous system (9) |
| OOLOGY | The branch of zoology that deals with the study of eggs, especially birds' eggs (6) |
| BRAVENEWWORLD | 1931 novel by English writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley, whose title comes from a line in Shakespeare's The Tempest (5,3,5) |
| BEAUTY | Black ____ , novel by English writer Anna Sewell published in 1877 about a horse (6) |
| LAMENTATIONS | Book of the Old Testament that deals with the destruction of Jerusalem (12) |
| BOTANY | A branch of biology that deals with the study of plant life (6) |
| CHRISTMASCAROL | A ___ novella by Charles Dickens that deals with the story of Ebenezer Scrooge an elderly miser: 2 wds. |
| ARITHMETIC | Branch of mathematics that deals with the study of numbers and operations on them (10) |
