| KARNAK | Village in Egypt on the Nile that occupies part of the site of ancient Thebes (6) |
| GAUL | Village in Egypt on the Nile that occupies part of the site of ancient Thebes (6) |
| NAIVE | Simple unit occupies part of church (5) |
| LEONINE | There's one in the Nile that looks like a lion (7) |
| LUXOR | Town in Egypt on the River Nile that is noted for a temple built by Amenhotep III (5) |
| THEBES | Name the ancient ruined city in Upper Egypt, on the Nile (6) |
| NABLUS | Town west of the River Jordan near the site of ancient Shechem |
| ASWAN | Ancient town in Egypt, on the Nile, just below the First Cataract |
| MATTER | Anything that occupies space and has mass (6) |
| TUNIS | It was a Roman city on the north coast of Africa, near the site of ancient Carthage. It was occupied by the Germans in 1942 and liberated by Allied troops in 1943. In The Tempest (act 2, scene 1), Seb |
| AMENRA | God of ancient Thebes |
| AQUEOUS | The ___ humour is a liquid that occupies the space in front of the iris and lens and the ringlike space encircling the lens (7) |
| ALEXANDRIA | Chief port of Egypt on the Nile Delta, known for its ancient lighthouse (10) |
| HAITI | Country in the Caribbean that occupies the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic (5) |
| CAIRO | The capital city of Egypt, on the Nile (5) |
| HOO | Old English for "hill" that, with "Sutton", "southern settlement", forms the toponym of the site in Suffolk of a famous Anglo-Saxon ship burial (3) |
| ENUMERATE | Use the last of rotten manure on a fair amount of the site for Count (9) |
| IRAQ | Modern-day country that occupies much of the land of ancient Mesopotamia |
| ITEM | A particular part of the site moved (4) |
| SALISBURYPLAIN | Chalk plateau in Wiltshire from which the site of ancient hillfort Old Sarum rises (9,5) |
