| CARTER | Howard, British archaeologist who excavated King Tutankhamen's tomb in 1922 (6) |
| LESLIE | - Howard, British actor (Gone with the Wind) |
| EVANS | Sir Arthur ___, British archaeologist, who excavated Knossos and named the Minoan civilisation (5) |
| GINN | Peter _, British archaeologist who lived on the Victorian Farm (4) |
| PETRIE | Flinders, British archaeologist and Egyptologist born in 1853 who invented sequence dating (6) |
| ARTHUR | British archaeologist whose excavations on the island of Crete led to the discovery of the Bronze Age Minoan civilisation (6) |
| MEDINA | The papers cover up first news of tomb in holy place (6) |
| LEAKEY | Mary ---, archaeologist who led the excavation of the Laetoli footprints |
| ANUBIS | Jackal-headed god of mummification and protector of tombs in Egyptian mythology (6) |
| SCILIEMANN | Heinrich, archaeologist who excavated Troy (10) |
| HOWARDCARTER | Archaeologist who found the intact tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922 (6,6) |
| MORTIMER | ____ Wheeler, British archaeologist born in 1890 noted for discoveries in Britain and India (8) |
| KNOSSOS | Chief city of Minoan (Bronze Age) Crete, first excavated in modern times by British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans from 1900 (7) |
| LARA | Forename of a fictional British archaeologist and tomb raider in a series of video games and films (4) |
| WHEELER | Mortimer, British archaeologist born in 1890 (7) |
| TOMBRAIDER | Which video game series features fictional British archaeologist Lara Croft? (4,6) |
| MAUSOLEUM | Magnificent tomb or monument; examples in Mallorca include the Bronze Age Necropolis de Son Real in the north of the island and many tombs in Palma cemetery in the south (9) |
| ARTHUREVANS | English archaeologist who discovered and named the Bronze Age Minoan civilisation of Crete in the early 20th century (6,5) |
| CHILDE | V Gordon ___, Australian-born archaeologist who directed the excavation of 29 Across (6) |
| BELL | Author and archaeologist who played a key role in the creation of Iraq (8,4) |
