| ATTILA | King of the Huns who invaded Gaul in 451 AD (6) |
| HUN | Catalaunian Plains combatant, 451 AD |
| ANGLES | Germanic people who invaded England in the 5th and 6th centuries AD (6) |
| TEUTON | A member of an ancient Germanic people from Jutland who migrated to Gaul in the 2nd Century B.C. (6) |
| DORIAN | A member of a Hellenic people who invaded Greece around 1100 B.C. (6) |
| XERXES | Persian king who invaded Greece (6) |
| CAESAR | Roman leader who invaded Britain in 55BC and 54BC |
| ONRUSH | Hasty advance of the Huns - or it might be (6) |
| URSULA | Saint ___, a princess, with 11,000 maidens, massacred by the Huns (6) |
| STEPPE | Onetime home of the Huns |
| STLEOI | Pope who met with Attila the Hun |
| NOMADS | The Huns, e.g. |
| ABLAZE | A book ahead of rest ___ as in Fahrenheit 451? (6) |
| MONTAG | Guy ___, protagonist in the dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 (6) |
| CUSACK | South Africa-born actor who played Captain Beattie in 1966 sci-fi film Fahrenheit 451 (5,6) |
| ATLI | King of the Huns, in Germanic legend (anagram of TAIL) |
| ATTILATHEHUN | King defeated by the Romans and the Visigoths in 451 (6,3,3) |
| LIGHTS | Would you put a match to such books online like Fahrenheit 451? (6) |
| SYON | - House; remodelled by Robert Adam, the Duke of Northumberland's London residence with replicas of the Apollo Belvedere and The Dying Gaul in its great hall (4) |
| OFGOD | Attila, king of the Huns, was known as the --- (7,2,3) |
