| ORIONSBELT | A group of three bright stars in a constellation named after a mythological Greek hunter (6,4) |
| ORION | Containing an asterism formed by the three stars Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka, a constellation named after a mythological Greek hunter (5) |
| CASSIOPEIA | Northern constellation with five bright stars in a W shape |
| DELTAPERSEI | Double star in a constellation named for a Greek hero |
| LYRA | A constellation named after an ancient Greek musical instrument |
| REDGIANT | A term for a bright star in a late stage of its life that has consumed the hydrogen in its core (3,5) |
| PLOUGH | Group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major (6) |
| BELT | Orion's _, the three bright stars Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka collectively (4) |
| THROUGH | Word after "Whose broad stripes and bright stars" in the national anthem |
| ACTAEON | Depicted in a painting by Titian and in Ovid's Metamorphoses, a mythological Greek hunter turned into a stag by Artemis (7) |
| NERITES | Freshwater snails named after a mythological Greek sea deity who was turned into a shellfish by the gods (7) |
| PYGMALION | Named after a mythological Greek sculptor who fell in love with his statue, George Bernard Shaw's play which inspired My Fair Lady (9) |
| TETHYS | Moon of Saturn named after a mythological Greek Titaness (6) |
| ENDYMION | Poem by John Keats named after a mythological Greek shepherd loved by the moon goddess Selene (8) |
| PEGASUS | Constellation named after a mythological winged horse (7) |
| HYACINTH | Named after a mythological prince accidentally killed by Apollo with a discus, a flower symbolising play/sport, sometimes grown in a forcing vase (8) |
| ARA | Constellation named after a church table; or, a genus of macaws (3) |
| ATLAS | Collection or book of maps compiled by a cartographer; or, a chain of mountains in the Maghreb identified with a mythological Greek TitanA (5) |
| GAIA | Hypothesis by James Lovelock named after a mythological goddess or personification of Earth (4) |
| ANDROMEDA | Constellation named after a princess in Greek mythology |
