| LAERTES | According to Homer, the father, by Anticlea, of the hero Odysseus (7) |
| ILIAD | Ancient Greek epic poem attributed to Homer, The _ (5) |
| PAGODA | Father meets the Father by a sacred building (6) |
| PAN | God the father by name |
| ODYSSEUS | In Greek mythology, the son of Laertes and Anticlea (8) |
| TENNANT | David _, played both the 10th and the 14th incarnations of the hero of Doctor Who (7) |
| ULYSSES | Latin name for the ancient Greek hero Odysseus; also the title of a James Joyce novel (7) |
| INDIANA | First name of the hero in Raiders of the Lost Ark and subsequent films (7) |
| TELAMON | The father of the hero Ajax in Greek mythology (7) |
| MYCENAE | Late Bronze Age Greek city in the Peloponnese that was "rich in gold", according to Homer (7) |
| SAMARIA | Home of the hero of a certain parable |
| AFFRONT | Insult father by placing in a vessel (7) |
| FRETFUL | Upset father by breaking flute (7) |
| FAUXPAS | Starts filming actors undermining mystery man and fathers by mistake (4,3) |
| THEODYSSEY | Homer's epic tale of the years after the Trojan War and the return of the hero to Ithaca (3,7) |
| DIOMEDES | Hero of the Trojan War who, according to Homer, entered the war with a fleet of 80 ships |
| ANCHISES | Trojan prince in classical mythology; father, by Aphrodite, of the hero Aeneas (8) |
| DIONE | Titaness of Greek mythology identified by Homer (The Iliad, book 5) as the mother of Aphrodite (5) |
| NESTOR | King of Pylos referred to as the Gerenian horseman in Homer's The Iliad (6) |
| DANAE | Mythical princess of the Greek city of Argos and mother, by Zeus, of the hero Perseus (5) |
