| CATO | Roman statesman, soldier and writer |
| MARQUISDESADE | French soldier and writer 1740-1814 (7,2,4) |
| LAWRENCE | TE _, known as _ of Arabia, British soldier and writer (8) |
| CYRANO | ___ de Bergerac, French soldier and writer with a big nose, d. 1655 (6) |
| LAWRENCEOFARABIA | British soldier and writer who helped organise a revolt against the Turks (8,2,6) |
| TELAWRENCE | British soldier and writer who described his experiences in The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1.1.8) |
| HACKETT | Sir John Winthrop ?, soldier and author of 1977 memoir I Was a Stranger (7) |
| OFARABIA | Carbonara alewife cooked for Anglo-Irish soldier and author (8,2,6) |
| CICERO | Roman statesman, orator and writer (6) |
| SENECA | Roman statesman and philosopher who was and advisor to Nero (circa 4 BC - 65 AD). |
| AGRIPPA | Roman statesman and general who defeated Antony and Cleopatra's forces at the battle of Actium |
| CHICKPEA | Foodstuff which is the direct translation of the name of the Roman statesman, orator and writer Cicero (106-43 BC) (8) |
| SEJANUS | Roman statesman given hollow sphere by Roman god |
| GRACCHUS | Tiberius Sempronius, Roman statesman and reformer (8) |
| PLINY | Roman statesman and scholar, known as ' the Elder', whose encyclopaedic Natural History was published in 77 AD (5) |
| CRASSUS | This proverbially rich Roman statesman is also rough and rude |
| LEPIDUS | Roman statesman who formed the Second Triumvirate with Octavian and Mark Antony |
| MAECENAS | Gaius ___ (c. 70-8 BC), wealthy Roman statesman noted for his patronage of poets such as Virgil and Horace (8) |
| CATONIC | Like a Roman statesman |
| MARCATO | Blemish on Roman statesman is strongly accented (7) |
