| HESPERIDES | "The daughters of evening" in Greek mythology who guarded a tree which bore golden apples (10) |
| SCYLLA | Sea nymph in Greek mythology who guarded the Straits of Messina with Charybdis (6) |
| ACEOFSPADES | The card which bore the image of Saddam Hussein the deck of 'most wanted' Iraqis in 2003 (3,2,6) |
| WEEVILS | Beetles of the family Curculionidae which bore into grain, fruit and nuts (7) |
| ALLALONG | From the start, a large pine guarded a lake (3,5) |
| HOWDAH | Way in which bore turned up for seat on Jumbo |
| EON | Magnate once guarded a very long time (3) |
| GATEKEEPER | Had to look around at start of evening in the middle of empty gutter for watchman (10) |
| LADON | Serpent-like dragon in Greek mythology that guarded the golden apples in the Garden of the Hesperides |
| FERTILIZER | Golden apples |
| IDUN | Norse goddess of spring who guarded the golden apples that kept the gods eternally young (4) |
| CORDELIA | One of the daughters of King Lear in the William Shakespeare play of that name (8) |
| PLEIADES | Open star cluster in Taurus also called Seven Sisters because of the myth of the daughters of Atlas and Pleione (8) |
| HYADES | Open cluster of stars in the constellation Taurus, named after the daughters of Atlas (6) |
| KNOTTY | ___ Ash: area of Liverpool which takes its name from a tree which once stood in the area (6) |
| GREATGRANDNIECE | Eugenia Washington (co-founder of the Daughters of the American Revolution), to George Washington |
| OCEANIDS | Nymphs who were the daughters of the Titans, Oceanus and Tethys (8) |
| CERBERUS | Monstrous dog of Greek mythology with three (sometimes fifty) heads who guarded the entrance to Hades (8) |
| ALMOND | Name the nut of a tree which grows in warm temperate regions (6) |
| ATALANTA | In Greek mythology, a maiden who lost to Hippomenes when she paused to pick up three golden apples |
