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ancients

Answer	Crossword Clue
ANCIENTS	People of classical antiquity
ANCIENTS	Socrates and Plato, e.g.
ANCIENTS	People who lived in times long past

ANCIENTS	Minoans or Medes
ANCIENTS	Classics.
ANCIENTS	Gaffers.
ANCIENTS	People of Graeco-Roman times (with "the").
ANCIENTS	Early Greeks and Romans.
ANCIENTS	Babylonians, for example.
ANCIENTS	Plutarch, Plato, Pliny et al.
ANCIENTS	People of classical times

ANCIENTS	Medes and Minoans
ANCIENTS	Plato and Aristotle, e.g.
ANCIENTS	Patriarchs and matriarchs
ANCIENTS	Graybeards
ANCIENTS	Peoples of antiquity