| HADRIAN | Roman emperor who succeeded Trajan and ordered the construction of a wall stretching 73 miles coast-tocoast across northern England (7) |
| BENIN | Country with a 75-mile coast along the Gulf of Guinea |
| JUVENAL | Roman poet whose Satires were written during the reigns of the emperors Trajan and Hadrian (7) |
| PLINY | Friend of Trajan and Tacitus |
| OFFA | Mercian king who ordered the construction of a huge earthwork that is preserved as a National Trail (4) |
| PERICLES | Ceps rile up the Athenian who ordered the construction of the Parthenon (8) |
| TIBERIUS | The second Roman emperor, who succeeded his father-in-law and stepfather Augustus and ruled from 14-37AD (8) |
| LESSEPS | Ferdinand, French diplomat who campaigned for the construction of a Suez Canal (7) |
| PILATE | Pontius ---, according to the New Testament, the official who was the judge at the trial of Jesus and ordered his crucifixion (6) |
| TALON | Used in the construction of a hut - a long nail (5) |
| GATES | He's pledged $10 million to the construction of a D.C. visitors' center |
| DUSHI | I hear you went to one of the top seafood restaurants right in the middle of Porthcawl and ordered a speciality fish dish (5) |
| COSMOS | Dahlia and daisy's bee-, butterfly- and hawk moth-attracting relation whose name, from "jewel, ornament" and "ordered world", aptly refers to the gem-hued colours of its flowers and orderly arrangemen |
| VALERIAN | Roman emperor who succeeded the murdered Aemilian in 253 AD (8) |
| EXPEDITE | Hasten the construction of a deep exit (8) |
| MINARET | Train me in the construction of a mosque tower (7) |
| CELLULAR | Like the construction of a honeycomb? (8) |
| AIDS | Supports in the construction of a dais |
| IGNATIUS | Bishop of Antioch who was martyred under the Roman Emperor Trajan (8) |
| HERSCHEL | Composer whose construction of a telescope led to his discovery of Uranus in 1781 and subsequent appointment as court astronomer to George III the following year (8) |
