| STEPPEROUTE | Overland path that predates the Silk Road |
| YANKEEDOODLE | Traditional song and nursery rhyme, which predates the American Revolution (the state anthem of Connecticut) (6-6) |
| ATLATL | Hunting tool which predates the bow and arrow |
| DEWAR | Flask predates the thermos |
| OCTAL | Computer notation that predates hexadecimal |
| OREO | Cookie that predates crossword puzzles |
| IRC | Online-messaging system that predates AIM |
| ROME | Capital that predates its country by more than twenty-five hundred years |
| LADYBIRD | A small beetle with a domed back, typically red with black spots, that predates on aphids (8) |
| POLO | Traveller whose adventures along the Silk Road and at the court of Kublai Khan are described in Il Milione (The Million), or Book of the Marvels of the World (4) |
| ROBOT | The concept of artificial humans predates recorded history, but the modern term _____ derives from a Czech word that means forced labour or serf, used in Karel Aapek's 1920 play R.U.R. (5) |
| XIAN | Chinese city that was the starting point of the Silk Road |
| BRICKROAD | The yellow path that Dorothy followed to the Emerald City (5,4) |
| OSCULATING | Elliptical path that allows single-apparition comets to permanently exit the Solar System after a single pass of the sun (10,5) |
| ORBIT | Elliptical path that allows single-apparition comets to permanently exit the Solar System after a single pass of the sun (10,5) |
| VIADOLOROSA | A street in Jerusalem believed to be the path that Jesus walked on the way to his crucifixion |
| GHAN | Name the train on the Adelaide/ Darwin line that follows the Overland Telegraph route (4) |
| BOATRACE | Snake path that winds on the river (4,4) |
| ARC | Path that a basketball takes on its way to the basket |
| COURSE | The path that anything moves in (6) |
