| PHOENICIA | Lebanon, in ancient times |
| NOBLEMAN | Count maybe 1000 in Lebanon in distress (8) |
| NOBLE | Titled the article 'Leaving Lebanon in Ruins' (5) |
| ANNEBOLEYN | Queen of Lebanon in the wars backing the old knight |
| NOBEL | Lebanon in decline, having lost an illustrious prize (5) |
| ELD | Ancient times, in ancient times |
| IDA | Mount ... in central Crete was associated with the worship of Zeus in ancient times (3) |
| THASOS | Island of NE Greece in the Aegean Sea famous in ancient times for its gold mines (6) |
| PARNASSUS | Mount ... in central Greece was, in ancient times, sacred to Apollo, Dionysus and the Muses (9) |
| KOS | Island in the Dodecanese, associated in ancient times with Hippocrates, 'the father of medicine' |
| PROTEMPORE | In Rome in ancient times for the time being (3,7) |
| VALEOFTEMPE | Wooded valley between the mountains Olympus and Ossa in Thessaly, eastern Greece; associated with Apollo in ancient times (4,2,5) |
| MOUNT | Mountain in central Crete associated with the worship of Zeus in ancient times (5,3) |
| MOUNTIDA | Mountain in central Crete associated with the worship of Zeus in ancient times |
| PATNA | Capital of Bihar in NE India, known in ancient times as Pataliputra (5) |
| IRBID | Large city in Jordan known in ancient times as Arabella |
| RUBICON | A stream in north Italy, in ancient times the boundary between Italy and Cisalpine Gaul (7) |
| AVERNUS | Crater lake near Naples in southern Italy thought in ancient times to be an entrance to the underworld (7) |
| TRENTO | City on the Adige River in northern Italy; known in ancient times as Tridentum (6) |
| LUXOR | City in Upper Egypt called Thebes in ancient times (5) |
