| SCHLIEMANN | In 1873, a cache of gold and other artefacts, called Priam's Treasure, is "discovered" and smuggled away. (Its authenticity is later disputed.) Three years earlier the same archaeologist excavated for |
| LIEBIG | German scientist (died 1873), a principal founder of organic chemistry (6) |
| TTROY | Ancient home to Priam's Treasure |
| HOARD | A cache of ancient coins, treasure or other valuable artefacts; or, a secret stock or store generally (5) |
| CAPSULE | Foil cap on a wine bottle's cork; seedcase of a foxglove, poppy or violet; or, with "time", a cache of items representative of contemporary life, buried for future discovery (7) |
| PHARMACOPOEIA | Injure a policeman in post office that is turning up a cache of drugs |
| MINE | System of tunnels and excavations for the extraction of coal, diamonds, gold and other ores, for which Sir Humphry Davy invented a type of safety lamp (4) |
| MINOS | On March 23, 1900, Arthur Evans began his excavations of the palace ruins in Knossos on Crete, discovering some 3,000 clay tablets with inscriptions plus many other artefacts. What is the name of this |
| RARE | Unusual (as in a plant or other artefact), and almost uncooked (as in meat!) (4) |
| AQUAREGIA | Highly corrosive compound of hydrochloric acid and nitric acid that dissolves gold and other noble metals (4,5) |
| ARSENAL | Returned from plane's radio room with a cache of weapons (7) |
| CARAT | It takes a cart to measure gold and other precious things? (5) |
| VALUE | Court action in pursuit of treasure is a subjective response (5,9) |
| JUDGEMENT | Court action in pursuit of treasure is a subjective response (5,9) |
| STORESUP | Makes a cache of |
| TOOLKIT | Place for a cache of nuts |
| ARMOREDTRANSPORT | Car with a cache of cash |
| RANSOM | Extorted money and smuggled a bit out of Spain (6) |
| RARER | Even more unusual (as in a plant or other artefact) than normal (5) |
| SPEKE | John Hanning ___, English explorer of Africa who discovered and named Lake Victoria in 1858 (5) |
