| HOSTAGES | "I have a wife, I have sons: We have given so many ____ to the fates" (Lucan, in Pharsalia) |
| GRANDCENTRAL | "I'm a charitable guy. In fact, I've given so many $1,000 g |
| DANELAW | As lion-tamer taking a wife, I must leave the old north |
| WHALE | It's huge to have a wife in good health (5) |
| MASS | A mother with twin sons, we gather (4) |
| ENIGMAS | "I have put in so many ___ and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries": James Joyce (7) |
| THREAD | A fine strand of embroidery silk, filoselle, floss, genappe, purl, zari or other yarn for needlecraft; one of the filaments of a spider's web; or, alluding to the destiny spun by the Fates, the course |
| BASSOON | It's nothing for a sailor to have sons to play with (7) |
| ONWARDS | Drawback to have son following and no turning back in the front and beyond (7) |
| MOIRAI | In Greek mythology, the white-robed incarnations of destiny, often known in English as the Fates |
| DEIGNED | Saw fit with plan to have sons eliminated |
| GALLON | Bitter on being given so much to drink? (6) |
| WIDOWED | Wife I had been in debt to having lost her? |
| TWILIGHT | Tipsy wife I left in the gloaming (8) |
| MEN | "So many __, so little time": Mae West |
| ASSUME | "So many ___. So little know" (proverb) |
| BEHEADED | Second and fifth word of the mnemonic used to remember the fates of Henry VIII's six wives |
| LATIN | Studied in classics or Literae humaniores, language in which works by Catullus, Juvenal, Manilius and Lucan are written (5) |
| GEORGEBINGHAM | The eighth Earl of Lucan who is a paternal third cousin of Diana, Princess of Wales (6,7) |
| NONSKILLED | Amateurish to have son's work terminated (10) |
