| SOMNI | "Sunt geminae ____ portae" (Aen 6.893), the gates of Sleep, exit from Hades |
| OSTIA | Portae, ianuae, fores et praesertim portus Romae |
| THINKER | The ___; Auguste Rodin's sculpture originally conceived as the crowning element of The Gates of Hell (7) |
| RODINS | "The Kiss," "The Thinker," "The Gates of Hell," etc. |
| ODYSSEUS | Mythological Greek hero who devised the stratagem whereby he and a band of warriors were able to sneak through the gates of Troy in a wooden horse (8) |
| CREATEANOPENING | Patron's request of Auguste Rodin, resulting in "The Gates of Hell"? |
| CERBERUS | Multiheaded dog guarding the gates of the underworld, in myth |
| EGO | "___ Tripping at the Gates of Hell" (The Flaming Lips EP) |
| PANPIPER | Pot and bongs at the gates of dawn in Wind in the Willows (3,5) |
| PINKFLOYD | Rock band that released their debut album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn in 1967 |
| RODIN | Auguste, sculptor who created the bronze The Gates Of Hell (5) |
| LSD | Supposed influence on Pink Floyd's "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" |
| DAWN | Pink Floyd's debut album, The Piper at the Gates of ___ |
| PIPER | Pink Floyd "The ___ at the Gates of Dawn" |
| EDEN | Dylan sang of the "Gates of" this |
| HORAE | Guardians of the gates of Olympus |
| EOS | Dawn goddess referred to as "rosy-fingered", for she opened the gates of heaven so that her brother, Helios the Sun, could pass through and rise (3) |
| ENTER | "Abandon all hope, ye who ___ here" (inscription on the gates of Dante's Hell) |
| ACHILLES | Greek hero who slew Hector at the gates of Troy (8) |
| DANTE | Poet whose work inspired Rodin's "The Gates of Hell" |
