| ABUSIMBEL | Site of two rock temples in southern Egypt (3,6) |
| ELLORA | Site of famed rock temples in India |
| RAMSSESII | Third pharaoh of the 19th dynasty who built the rock temples at Abu Simbel (7,2) |
| ELALAMEIN | Coastal town in Egypt, site of two major World War Two battles in 1942 (2,7) |
| SUTTONHOO | Site of two early cemeteries near Woodbridge in Suffolk (6,3) |
| LUXOR | City on the Nile in southern Egypt, on the site of ancient Thebes (5) |
| LAKENASSER | 83% of a vast reservoir in southern Egypt and northern Sudan |
| ASWAN | An embankment dam in southern Egypt |
| ASWANHIGHDAM | Construction on the Nile, in southern Egypt (5,4,3) |
| NASSER | Lake ____, vast reservoir in southern Egypt and northern Sudan (6) |
| HARRISONANDTYLER | Two Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees |
| SIMBEL | Former village in S. Egypt that was site of two temples to Rameses II (3,6) |
| ABU | Former village in S. Egypt that was site of two temples to Rameses II (3,6) |
| ANGKOR | Huge area of ruined temples in north-west Cambodia (6) |
| NUBIAN | Inhabitant of a region now comprising parts of northern Sudan and southern Egypt |
| GOPURA | A monumental tower at the entrance to a temple in southern India |
| ELOQUENT | Two rock bands of the '70s, one halving drug use, take time showing expressiveness (8) |
| ROBOT | Coldly efficient, but he makes two rock bottom starts (5) |
| PILLARSOFHERCULES | Two rocks flanking the Strait of Gibraltar (7,2,8) |
| SIZEWELL | Village in Suffolk, site of two nuclear power stations (8) |
