| CICERO | Roman consul, orator and writer killed by Mark Antony's agents in 43BC (6) |
| LENNON | John, former member of the Beatles, killed by Mark Chapman (6) |
| TULLY | The former English name for the Roman consul, orator and writer Cicero |
| PLINY | Roman writer killed by Vesuvius |
| ZOLA | Writer killed by fumes from a blocked chimney |
| PLINYTHEELDER | "Naturalis Historia" writer killed during the eruption of Vesuvius |
| LYSIAS | Ancient Greek orator and speech writer whose works include Against Eratosthenes (6) |
| MARCUS | Maybe Antonius, Roman consul under senate leaders? (6) |
| CAESAR | Former Roman consul, Julius - (6) |
| ROMANS | Friends, . . ., countrymen (start of Mark Antony's speech) (6) |
| BRANDY | Mark Antony's extreme spirit (6) |
| CATO | -- the Elder or -- the Censor, 234-149BC, Roman statesman, orator and writer (4) |
| CHICKPEA | Foodstuff which is the direct translation of the name of the Roman statesman, orator and writer Cicero (106-43 BC) (8) |
| MARCELLUS | Roman consul who captured Syracuse in A.D. 211 |
| PERICLES | Prominent and influential Greek statesman, orator and general of Athens during the Golden Age, subject of a play written at least in part by William Shakespeare |
| DEMOSTHENES | Athenian orator and prose writer who died in 322 BC |
| OCTAVIA | In Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, who is Mark Antony's wife? (7) |
| TACITUS | Gaius Cornelius, Roman orator and historian whose works include the Annals (7) |
| SCAR | Mark Antony's first to appear in finale of Julius Caesar, the film (4) |
| ISOCRATES | Greek orator and prose writer 436-338BC (9) |
