| HABE | "The Poisoned Stream" author: 1969 |
| TALESE | "The Kingdom and the Power" author, 1969 |
| WATEN | Born in Russia and growing up in rural WA, whose account of a visit to the Soviet Union was From Odessa to Odessa: The Journey of an Australian Writer (1969) |
| OSRIC | In Hamlet, who hands Claudius the poisoned foils? (5) |
| SLEEP | Result of eating the poisoned apple in "Snow White" |
| ASLEEP | Like Snow White. after biting the poisoned apple |
| NED | ___ Willis, Neighbours character who nearly ate one of the poisoned pies (3) |
| HENBIT | Note well one drilled in area of the poisoned deadnettle (6) |
| DEIANIRA | Wife of Heracles in Greek mythology, whose death she inadvertently caused with the poisoned Shirt of Nessus (8) |
| GASTRIC | Contents of the stomach reportedly poisoned Wakeman (7) |
| ASPS | Snakes such as the one which poisoned Cleopatra |
| SEPTIC | Poisoned quotes protecting power on the rise (6) |
| DATE | Poisoned palm fruit in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" |
| POSEIDON | The main deity unfortunately poisoned (8) |
| TOXIPHOBIA | The fear of being poisoned (10) |
| NESSUS | Centaur killed by Hercules with a poisoned arrow whose blood, in turn, poisoned and killed Hercules |
| SALIERI | Depicted in Amadeus, the composer rumoured to have poisoned Mozart (7) |
| ELATUS | In Greek mythology, a centaur killed during a battle with Heracles by a poisoned arrow that passed through his arm and continued to wound Chiron in the knee |
| APPLETINI | Cocktail that's poisoned and offered to the heroine of Disney's "Enchanted" |
| BRITANNICUS | Son of Claudius poisoned, aged 13, on the orders of his half-brother Nero |
