| ANTONINEWALL | Inane town all about the end of the Roman Empire (8,4) |
| LLANGOLLEN | Welsh town all round Northern valley across old lake |
| VISCOSITY | Bombs huge town all round: that makes things sticky (9) |
| EDWARDGIBBON | Author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
| MIDDLEAGES | In European history, the period between the end of the Roman Empire and about 1500 AD (6,4) |
| DARKAGES | Period between the end of the Roman empire and the Renaissance (4,4) |
| GALLIACOMATA | Part of the Roman Empire north of the Alps (full of long-haired foreigners?), vide eg Tac. Ann. 11.23 |
| ROBERTDINERO | Actor who's all about the money? |
| OLIGARCHICAL | It's all about the big nobs (12) |
| TITUS | --- Andronicus, Shakespeare tragedy set towards the end of the Roman Empire (5) |
| ANCIENT | Dating from before the end of the Roman Empire (7) |
| ARTHISTORIAN | A retweet by past master - a crafty type who knows all about the old pictures (3,9) |
| CHRISTIANITY | Official religion of the Roman Empire from the fourth century (12) |
| ATTILATHEHUN | Barbarian invader of the Roman Empire, d. 453 (6,3,3) |
| RAVENNA | This city in northeastern Italy was the capital of the Roman Empire in the 5th century CE. Its Church of San Vitale is one of the finest examples of Byzantine architecture and decoration in western Eu |
| SARACEN | Member of one of the nomadic Arabic tribes of the Syrian desert that harassed the borders of the Roman Empire (7) |
| PUFFDADDY | Weird Al's "It's All About the Pentiums" is a parody of his "It's All About the Benjamins" (2 wds.) |
| BYZANTINE | The - Empire was the continuation of the Roman Empire in the East (9) |
| INTONATION | Enthusiastic about the state - it's all about the pitch! (10) |
| PETANCA | Spanish bowling game, Mallorca has its own league for this sport with competitions taking place between towns all over the island (7) |