| TACITUS | Publius Cornelius --, about 100AD, Roman historian and author (7) |
| ESSENES | Members of an ascetic Jewish sect, active from approximately 200BC to 100AD |
| SUETONIUS | Roman historian and author of Lives of the Caesars |
| SALLUST | Roman historian and politician whose works include The Conspiracy of Catiline (7) |
| MICHAEL | NZ historian and author who died in 2004 (7,4) |
| SIMMONS | Prof Jack ___, late transport historian and author (7) |
| TERENCE | English name of Roman comic dramatist Publius Terentius Afer whose works include Andria and Eunuchus (7) |
| RAPINAE | Publius in area shaken up by pillaging (nom, f pl noun) |
| OVIDIUS | Ars amatoria writer, Publius ____ Naso |
| SENATOR | Cicero or Publius |
| LIVY | Ancient Roman historian and prose writer |
| CATO | Roman historian and senator (234 BC - 149 BC) (4) |
| KING | NZ historian and author who died in 2004 (7,4) |
| ERIC | Historian and author of The Age of Extremes (4,8) |
| HOBSBAWM | Historian and author of The Age Of Extremes (4) |
| LUCY | ___ Worsley, historian and author (4) |
| BROOKNER | Anita, English art historian and writer of novels such as Latecomers and The Next Big Thing (8) |
| CHRISBALL | Noted carp angler, historian and writer (*crabs hill) (5,4) |
| SEBAG | Simon ___ Montefiore (historian and writer) |
| LENDEIGHTON | British military historian and writer whose works include the spy novel The IPCRESS File (3,8) |
