| VERONESE | Painter of The Family of Darius Before Alexander whose adopted surname indicates the Italian city in which he was born in 1528 (8) |
| STALIN | Joseph, Soviet leader whose adopted surname means Man Of Steel in Russian (6) |
| MILNE | Alan Alexander, whose son was named Christopher Robin |
| GOANNA | Name for a member of the family of Australian lizards which may range in size from 20cm to the 2m lo |
| ELIHU | A Buzite of the family of Ram, one of Job's comforters (5) |
| BALTIC | Branch of the family of languages consisting of Lithuanian, Latvian and Old Prussian (6) |
| HAWKMOTH | Insect of the family of lepidoptera also commonly called 'sphinx' (4,4) |
| MANTUA | Small city in northern Italy (pop about 50,000), designated the Italian City of Culture in 2017 (6) |
| XERXES | King of Persia and son of Darius, famous for crossing the Hellespont (6) |
| ANCESTRAL | Of the family of Lancaster, perhaps (9) |
| CANINE | A member of the family of carnivores that includes dogs (6) |
| ISSUS | Ancient settlement in the modern Turkish province of Hatay associated with a battle in which Alexander the Great defeated Darius III in 333 BC |
| MOSQUE | Religious building that would be attended by the Nazirs of Weatherfield and the family of in Walford (6) |
| CANAL | Gondolas travel the Grand ... in the Italian city of Venice |
| COPTIC | The family of dialects traditionally used by the Christians of Egypt (6) |
| AENEAS | Son of Aphrodite and the Trojan prince Anchises, from whom the family of Julius Caesar claimed descent (6) |
| CACTACEOUS | Like, or relating to, the family of plants of which the prickly pear is a common example (10) |
| MURINE | Of or relating to the family of rodents that includes the mice and rats (6) |
| DORS | Adopted surname of English actress and singer Diana Mary Fluck (1931-84) (4) |
| ROSALIA | Patron saint of the Italian city of Palermo |
