| VISIGOTHS | Sackers in the sack of Rome, A.D. |
| NERO | Emperor of Rome: A.D. 54-68 |
| TOGA | The sack of Rome? |
| PRIAM | King killed in the sack of Troy |
| VIRGIL | Book II of this Roman writer's Aeneid contains the best-known account of the sack of Troy. |
| AENEAS | In classical mythology, a Trojan prince and son of Aphrodite who escaped the sack of Troy (6) |
| ORANGES | Known collectively as a "pocket", the aromatic hesperidia modelled in chocolate by Terry's, studded with cloves to make pomanders or placed in stockings at Christmas to represent the sacks of coins se |
| IVAN | Orderer of the sack of Novgorod |
| CENSUS | In ancient Rome a registration of the population for the purposes of taxation (6) |
| FASCES | In ancient Rome, a bundle of rods with an axe blade protruding which was the symbol of a magistrate's power (6) |
| TRIUMPH | In ancient Rome, a ritual procession to the Capitoline Hill in honour of a victorious general (7) |
| SACHET | Cloth bag of lavender or potpourri as a pomander for a drawer; a small tied cheesecloth or muslin sack of herbs or spices; or, a miniature packet of salt, shampoo, sugar etc (6) |
| TRIUMVIR | In ancient Rome, a member of a board of three officials with joint responsibility for some task |
| VANDALS | Fifth century sackers of Gaul %26 Rome |
| VANDALIC | Like a sacker of Rome |
| ALARIC | Sacker of Rome in 410 |
| BACCHUS | In ancient Greece and Rome, a god of wine and giver of ecstasy, identified with Dionysus |
| SIBYL | In ancient Greece and Rome, a prophetess such as the one who guided Aeneas through the underworld (5) |
| HECATOMB | In ancient Greece or Rome, a great public sacrifice, originally of a hundred oxen (8) |
| OVATION | In ancient Rome, a victory procession for a returning general less glorious than a triumph (7) |
