| SPEI | Plena ____ bonae: full of good hope, Cicero Attico in epistula 143 (7.19) |
| MINAE | Viginti ____ bonae: twenty lovely coins, Plautus Asinaria 734 |
| LITTERAE | A, B, C, exempli gratia, et una epistula (pluralis est) |
| POSTSCRIPTUM | Verba quae immemori tibi sub epistula scribenda sunt |
| RECTA | Virtues: res bonae |
| MISSA | Epistula ____: a letter which has been sent |
| DOUBLE | Meaning of the term 'Plena' as in Paeonia x festiva 'Rubra Plena' (6) |
| BANTU | Group of African languages that includes most of the principal languages spoken from the equator to the Cape of Good Hope |
| FYNBOS | Distinctive shrubby vegetation (Afrikaans, 'fine bush') of South Africa's Cape of Good Hope, similar to the maquis of Mediterranean coastal regions (6) |
| DIAS | Bartholomew ___ (anglicised), the first navigator known to have rounded the Cape of Good Hope, in 1488 (4) |
| ENDERBY | --- Land is an Australian territory south of the Cape of Good Hope (7) |
| VASCODAGAMA | In 1497, who led the first European expedition round the Cape of Good Hope? (5,2,4) |
| CAPE | ___ of Good Hope (geographic feature of South Africa) |
| EDGEWISE | Lippy type is full of good advice in Sideways (8) |
| PITHY | It's a shame being out of breath when full of good stuff |
| FLYINGDUTCHMAN | Ghostly ship said to sail the seas around the Cape of Good Hope (6,8) |
| AFRICANLILIES | Hardy blooms native to the Cape of Good Hope |
| DAGAMA | Vasco, navigator who discovered the sea route to India around the Cape of Good Hope (2,4) |
| OJHA | Pragyan .... , India Test cricketer who took 5-143 against England in Mumbai in 2012 (4) |
| VASCO | Navigator who discovered the sea route from Portugal to India around the Cape of Good Hope (5,2,4) |
