| ALBERTI | In 1470, he published Trattati in cifra ("Treatise on Ciphers"), in which he described the first cipher disk; he prescribed that the setting of the disk should be changed after enciphering three or fo |
| IMPLICATE | Associate edited cip received by one partner (9) |
| KELMSCOTT | Village near Lechlade in Oxfordshire, site of William Morris' former summer home which he described as "Heaven on Earth" (9) |
| ZERO | Cipher in which leading character initially changes to last character |
| NOBODIES | Ciphers in All Souls? (8) |
| CODE | Firm early decision on cipher |
| EDWARD | I (1239-1307), II (1284-1327), III (1312-77), IV (1442-83), V (1470-83?), VI (1537-53), VII (1841-19 |
| SESSHU | Artist of Japanese ink painting Winter Landscape, c. 1470 (6) |
| LISTER | He published important work on antiseptics in March 1867 that helped reduce high hospital mortality rates from septic inflammation. He is regarded as the founder of modern surgical practice, and his n |
| THOREAU | On July 4, 1845, he retreated to a cabin on a pond; nine years later he published a book about it |
| STEPHENKING | Novelist who in 1999 was hit by a van in Maine and in 2002 announced his retirement; he published his his next novel a year later, and has added 25 since |
| DAYLIGHTSAVING | What concept did the English builder William Willett propose when he published a pamphlet in 1907? ( |
| BOZ | Early pseudonym of Charles Dickens, under which he published works including The Pickwick Papers (1836-7) (3) |
| ESCHEAT | Legal term which described the reversion of property to the feudal lord in the absence of legal heirs |
| ERASMUS | What pseudonym did a professor of Divinity and Greek at Cambridge use when he published the satire The Praise of Folly (1509) |
| LEAR | Painter and poet who popularised the limerick when he published his 1846 illustrated Book of Nonsense (4) |
| ETERNITY | "The boldest book of our time. Honestly, fearlessly on the screen!" was how they described the 1953 |
| ENZO | Famous Italian car boss who once described the E-Type as the most beautiful car in the world (4.7) |
| FERRARI | Famous Italian car boss who once described the E-Type as the most beautiful car in the world (4.7) |
| ZEROSUM | Cipher in Latin I'm giving to the enemy as we're losing? |
