| PETRONIUSARBITER | Roman writer, d. AD 66 and reputed author of Satyricon (9,7) |
| HOMER | Who was the reputed author of the Iliad and Odyssey (5) |
| ZEALOT | Member of a sect whose fanatical opposition to foreign rule led to the AD 66-70 Jewish uprising against Rome (6) |
| PETRONIUS | Roman author of Satyricon |
| FELLINI | It. director of Satyricon |
| SAPID | Of good taste, and reputed to have soft heart |
| ECHIUM | The genus of the blue devil, aka viper's bugloss, whose name, from said serpent, refers to its snakeskin-like stems and reputed use as a remedy for asp bites (6) |
| NERO | Notorious Roman emperor, d. AD 68 (4) |
| CALIGULA | Notoriously cruel Roman emperor, d. AD 24 (8) |
| OVID | Roman poet, d. AD 17 (4) |
| TIBERIUS | Tyrannical successor to Emperor Augustus, d. AD 19 (8) |
| EDGAR | ___ Wallace, journalist and crime writer, d. Beverly Hills, 1932 (5) |
| WALTON | English writer, d. 1683 - English composer. d. 1983 (6) |
| EASTWOOD | Former mining town near Nottingham that is the birthplace of writer D. H. Lawrence (8) |
| LIQUIT | She left and went away, like Discordia, Petronius, Satyricon 124 |
| MILTONOBOTE | Second prime minister (1962-66) and second president (1966-71, 1980-5) of Uganda, latterly deposed and exiled by Tito Okello (6,5) |
| ROCKINGHAM | 2nd Marquis of ?, prime minister from 1765-66 and in 1782 |
| PLINY | Roman author known as the Elder who died as a result of the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD |
| VIRGIL | Book II of this Roman writer's Aeneid contains the best-known account of the sack of Troy. |
| STACCATO | Old Roman writer behind most of the pile of detached notes (8) |
