| KHUFU | Other name for Cheops, the Pharaoh of the Great Pyramid of Giza |
| EPOCHS | The letters in "Cheops", the Great Pyramid builder, can be rearranged into what word? (6) |
| CHEOPS | Pharaoh who commissioned the building of the Great Pyramid of Giza; also known as Khufu, son of Sneferu and father of Djedefre (6) |
| EGYPT | Consisting of 90 per cent desert, the most-populated of the Arab countries, site of the Great Sphinx, Abu Simbel and Great Pyramid of Giza (5) |
| TOMB | The Taj Mahal or the Great Pyramid of Giza, e.g. |
| LIMESTONE | Building material for the Great Pyramid of Giza |
| NILE | River by the Great Pyramid of Giza |
| GIZA | Site of the Great Pyramid of Cheops (4) |
| WONDERSOFTHEWORLD | Great Pyramid of Giza, Colossus of Rhodes, etc. |
| LIMESTONES | Great Pyramid of Giza material |
| UNAS | Final pharaoh of the Fifth Dynasty, whose pyramid is near Cairo |
| DEN | Pharaoh of the First Dynasty of Egypt whose mother was believed to be Merneith (3) |
| RAMSSESII | Third pharaoh of the 19th dynasty who built the rock temples at Abu Simbel (7,2) |
| AMENHOTEP | Name of several Egyptian pharaohs of the 18th dynasty |
| RAMSES | Name of 11 Egyptian pharaohs of the later New Kingdom period (6) |
| NEFERTARI | Egyptian Great Royal Wife of the pharaoh Ramesses the Great |
| TUTANKHAMEN | Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty who succeeded Akhenaton c. 1333 BC (11) |
| RAMESES | Name given to several pharaohs of the New Kingdom (7) |
| GIZAALEXANDRIA | Sites of the Great Pyramid and the Lighthouse |
| IMHOTEP | Probable architect of the pharaoh Djoser's pyramid, one of the few commoners deified in ancient Egypt |
