| MACHINA | Siege engine or crane: "aequataque ____ caelo" Aen 4 89 |
| EXCITA | She’s frightened, or aroused; a Bacchante “____ sacris | Thyias” (Aen 4. 301-2) |
| FEMINA | Mulier; alleged by Mercury (Aen 4. 569-70) to be 17 et mutabile 7 |
| DIDO | Ego ab Aenea deserta sum, praesertim Aen. 4 |
| BIKE | An engine- or human-powered two-wheeler for a spin or ride; or, a rarely used word for a bee's nest or hive (4) |
| GRUS | Latin for the demoiselle or "crane", which is immortalised in the southern sky at the opposite end of the celestial sphere to Charles's Wain (4) |
| TREBUCHET | Type of catapult used as a siege engine in the Middle Ages (9) |
| ONAGER | Hurling siege engine of ancient Rome |
| TREBUCKET | Male animal in box, possibly, by front of this siege engine |
| SCORPION | Siege engine used by ancient Roman armies, also known as an onager (8) |
| CHERRYPICKER | One going for the best harvester or crane |
| WADER | Some drew a derrick, or crane, perhaps |
| CAB | Driver's compartment in a train, lorry or crane? |
| ASANA | Cobra, camel, cat, crow, or crane |
| ADJUTANT | A large Indian stork or crane (8) |
| SIEGE | Sustained attack or the collective noun for a group of herons or cranes |
| DINK | Short word for a two-wheeled vehicle with a human for an engine; or, Scots dialect for a nest or swarm of ants, hornets, wasps or wild bees (4) |
| SIQUA | If any, e.g. ____ ____ est caelo pietas, Aen. 2.536 |
| PALMAS | He stretched his hands to the sky: caelo ____ [...] tetendit, Aen. 2.688 |
| STELLA | Sidus in caelo; apparuit mense Augusto ____, quae dicitur cometa (Bede 4.12) |
