| DECEMVIRI | Latin term meaning "Ten Men" which designates any such commission in the Roman Republic |
| SPARTACUS | Kubrick film set in the Roman Republic |
| ATIDE | "There is _ _ _ _ _ in the affairs of men which taken at the flood leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries." -Julius Caesar, Iv:iii |
| SPANISHARMADA | Fleet of 130 ships and almost 30,000 men which left Lisbon in 1588 (7,6) |
| CORMACMCCARTHY | Author of the 2005 novel No Country for Old Men which was made into a Best Picture-winning movie: 2 wds. |
| EMPIRE | Julius Caesar played a critical role in the subversion of the Roman Republic to the Roman ... |
| THRACIAN | Nationality of the gladiator Spartacus who led the slave uprising against the Roman Republic in the Third Servile War |
| LUCRETIA | Figure of myth whose death led to the expulsion of the Tarquins and the establishment of the Roman Republic (8) |
| OFFICER | Which person holds a commission in the armed services (7) |
| LAKECONWAY | The largest reservoir made by a game and fish commission in the United States |
| CAPRI | Italian island, a resort since the days of the Roman Republic |
| PUNICWARS | Series of three conflicts fought between the Roman Republic and the Carthaginian empire (5,4) |
| CONSUL | An annually elected chief magistrate who jointly ruled the Roman Republic (6) |
| UTRECHT | Sad truth about European Commission in the Netherlands (7) |
| ARCDETRIOMPHE | What did Napoleon Bonaparte commission in 1806, which is twice as big as the one in Rome on which it is modelled? (3,2,8) |
| AUSTRALIAHOUSE | What is the name of the office of the Australian High Commission in London? (9,5) |
| PEN | A fold, stall or sty; the drift, drove or flock of farm stock in any such an enclosure; "feather", a quill honed and split with a knife to form a nib; instrument modelled on this, such as a stylograph |
| SENATORS | rulers of the Roman Republic |
| CONSULS | Two chief magistrates of the Roman Republic |
| AEDILES | Magistrates of the Roman Republic (7) |
