| SOLDSEPARATELY | How additional items are described in toy ads (and a hint to the circled letters) |
| MONTECASSINO | Site in Italy of a Benedictine monastery (530 AD) and a battle in the second world war (5,7) |
| TODAY | Toy ad, designed to work now! (5) |
| WEEBLES | "____ wobble, but they don't fall down" (1970s Hasbro toy advertising) |
| POLO | Traveller whose adventures along the Silk Road and at the court of Kublai Khan are described in Il Milione (The Million), or Book of the Marvels of the World (4) |
| SINBAD | Monster-slaying sailor and adventurer whose seven voyages are described in the One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights)A tales (6) |
| AGRICOLA | Roman governor of Britannia whose life and exploits are described in a biography by his son-in-law Tacitus (8) |
| SAXONS | Anglo -; peoples whose lives are described in a series of chronicles originally instituted by Alfred the Great (6) |
| ELIJAH | Old Testament prophet whose works are described in the Books of Kings (6) |
| ALADDIN | Depicted in illustrations by Edmund Dulac and animations by Disney, a character whose adventures are described by Scheherazade in the Arabian Nights (7) |
| BLACKANDWHITE | How chess opponents are described in print (5,3,5) |
| LURIDLY | How scandals are described in tabloids |
| AIRLESS | Stuffy, as bald people are described in some places (7) |
| THEWRECK | Narrative poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, first published in Bel ads and Other Poems in 1842 (3,5,2,3,8) |
| OFTHE | Narrative poem by Henry Wadsworth Lon fellow. first published in Bel ads and Other Poems in 1842 (3,5,2,3,8) |
| HESPERUS | Narrative poem by Henry Wadsworth Lon fellow. first published in Bel ads and Other Poems in 1842 (3,5,2,3,8) |
| GOSSAMER | Two of the four parts of Jupiter's ring are described by a word that describes something light, delicate, and insubstantial. (8) |
| HOLYROMANEMPIRE | Collection of European territories, founded in 800 AD and abolished in 1806 (4,5,6) |
| THEATRICS | How Alice Cooper's on-stage snakes, gallows and impaled dolls are described (9) |
| APES | Orangutan, gorilla, chimpanzee, bonobo, and human are described as the five great what? (4) |
