| MIRATA | Sapientes semper ____ est: she has always admired the wise |
| LOISLANE | She admired the Man of Steel |
| TIGHTS | "And of course, I always admired a man who wears ____" (David Bowie, of Freddie Mercury) |
| ADFATA | ____ est: she addressed, eg Sibyl, Aen. 6.538 (deponent verb) |
| MOS | Mater est, et ____ muliebris est: she's a mum and her way is womanly |
| HUMANS | Large-brained bipedal Homines sapientes in the Hominidae family with the bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas and "handy men" (6) |
| VERBA | Qua sapientes animadvertimus? Hic habes duodetriginta |
| MAGI | Sapientes et doctores inter Persas habitantes |
| HUB | "The ... capital has always been the financial of the country" |
| TUFT | Be it carpet pile, golden toffish tassel threads, hair, hay or the grassy crest of a hilly tump, the meaning of this word has always revolved around the idea of a bunch or clump (4) |
| SETINSTONE | Choice of music for fashionable school has attitude - that's the way it has always been (3,2,5) |
| DYNAMOKIEV | The usual English name for a team which has always played in the top division of Soviet or Ukrainian football |
| USA | Team that has always made the Olympic basketball podium |
| BULAWAYO | Where, in Zimbabwe, India has always won the Test (8) |
| LHASA | Hell has always encompassed the Forbidden City (5) |
| GANGER | The mob has always to get water (6) |
| LIAR | "Success has always been the greatest ___": Nietzsche |
| LEAN | The non-fat D. Quaid has always been this. |
| ROSEA | Apud Homerum Aurora, digiti saltem, erat semper ____ |
| CAECAE | Tres Graeae unum ocellum habent, ergo duo semper ____ sunt |
