| ONFLEEK | Smooth and nice, in modern-day slang |
| SPARTACUSMOMENT | Cinematic/melodramatic act of defiance and solidarity, in modern-day slang |
| LADYCATION | Weekend away with just the girls, in modern-day slang |
| AMMOSEXUAL | Gun lover, in modern-day slang |
| ASANTE | One of the spellings of an empire and region in modern-day Ghana that was annexed by Britain in 1902 |
| GLEVUM | Roman "bright city", colonia and fort whose legacy and name live on in modern-day Gloucester (6) |
| UTICA | Ancient Phoenician and Carthaginian city in modern-day Tunisia (5) |
| INCENTIVE | Carrot's nice in stew, throwing in turnip top and swede at the end (9) |
| POMANDER | 'It smells nice in Sydney' (Englishman and his queen) (8) |
| BON | Nice, in Nice |
| MAJESTIC | August and another month almost fun, nice in the middle (8) |
| ISADORA | _ Duncan, dancer who died tragically in Nice in 1927 (7) |
| TROY | City in modern-day Turkey founded around 4500 years ago, and destroyed after a 10-year siege (4) |
| ORVIETO | City in modern-day Umbria, annexed by Rome in the 3rd Century BCE (7) |
| CHAGALL | Artist born in modern-day Belarus who resided in France for much of his life |
| SUMER | Ancient region of SW Asia that later became Babylonia, located in the southernmost part of Mesopotamia in modern-day Iraq (5) |
| SMYRNA | City from classical antiquity situated in modern-day Izmir in Turkey (6) |
| SHEBA | Kingdom mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, believed to be in modern-day Yemen (5) |
| HITTITE | Member of an ancient people of Anatolia who settled in modern-day Turkey in the early second millennium BC (7) |
| EUROFOREURO | How boxers are compared, in modern-day Ireland? |
