| LEOI | Sainted pope who helped defend Italy from Attila the Hun in the 5th century |
| ATTILA | Leader of the Huns in the fifth century AD (6) |
| POPELEO | Vatican figure instrumental in saving Rome from Attila |
| ESPIED | Noticed European was fast to defend Italy (6) |
| OSTROGOTH | Member of a people subjugated by the Huns in the 4th century (9) |
| AREHUMANS | "We ___" (part of the final statement made by 14-Across's main character, Gi-hun, in the series finale) |
| RAVENNA | This city in northeastern Italy was the capital of the Roman Empire in the 5th century CE. Its Church of San Vitale is one of the finest examples of Byzantine architecture and decoration in western Eu |
| CATANIA | This city in Italy was founded in 729 BCE by Chalcidians and then renamed Aetna in the 5th century BCE. It is home to ancient Roman and Greek ruins and structures, and it was rebuilt in Baroque style |
| PARTHENON | The temple on the Acropolis in Athens built in the 5th century BC |
| VANDALS | The Germanic tribe that looted and plundered its way around the Mediterranean in the 5th century |
| SUN | Chinese general and strategist credited with writing the 13-chapter military treatise The Art of War in the 5th century BC (3) |
| TZU | Chinese general and strategist credited with writing the 13-chapter military treatise The Art of War in the 5th century BC (3) |
| JUTES | Germanic people who invaded SE England in the 5th century AD, populating, according to Bede, Kent and the Isle of Wight (5) |
| ROMAN | Extensive ancient Western civilisation that disappeared in the 5th century, the .. Empire |
| TBILISI | Capital city in western Asia (pop abut 1.5 million), founded in the 5th century (7) |
| TARRAGONA | Port city in north-east Spain (pop about 130,000) founded in the 5th century BC (9) |
| ANGLE | Member of a Germanic people who came to England in the 5th century AD (5) |
| CORINTH | Ancient Greek city-state, an ally of Sparta in the 5th-century BC Peloponnesian War (7) |
| VANDAL | Member of a Germanic tribe which migrated as far as Spain and Rome in the 5th century |
| ANGLES | Germanic people who settled in Britain in the fifth century (6) |
