| Known beyond doubt |
CERTAIN |
| Major and Minor, constellations |
URSA |
| Models of excellence |
IDEALS |
| Of the immediate past |
RECENT |
| One owed allegiance to a feudal lord |
VASSAL |
| Pause or break in continuity |
HIATUS |
| Poems of mourning |
ELEGIES |
| Position in society |
STATUS |
| Sea to the east of Italy |
ADRIATIC |
| Sleepy |
DROWSY |
| Strip or deprive of |
DIVEST |
| Submerged ridge of rock or coral |
REEF |
| The study of biological heredity |
GENETICS |
| Transmits, knowledge perhaps |
IMPARTS |
| Uncontrolled or lawless |
ANARCHIC |
| Very light brown colour |
ECRU |