| CRONUS | After this Greek god was overthrown by his sons, his kingdom was divided among them, and the underworld fell by lot to Hades. He was the son of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaia (Earth). Who is this? |
| ORPHEUS | He joined the Argonauts, and his music kept them from peril. On his return, he married Eurydice, who was soon killed by a snakebite. He followed her to the land of the dead. Hades, king of the underwo |
| ANDROMEDA | The nearest spiral galaxy to us is named after this Greek mythological maiden |
| MAN | Among them and us? |
| ADONIS | This Greek god has no aids, strangely |
| CRONOS | Titan who was overthrown by his son Zeus (6) |
| TREADS | The patterns incised in the rubber surfaces of wheels to improve traction by expelling water between them and the road |
| ZEUS | Which Greek god was ruler of the sky and weather? (4) |
| DEADPAN | Late Greek god was emotionless (7) |
| OBOES | Plays along with them and the drifters? (5) |
| SLS | John and Yoko's son ... his initials-sharers |
| SYNCHRONISATION | Getting of things together with son: his irony can't make it (15) |
| RIOT | With 29-Across, first and second names of 1-Across and 21-Across's new son (his last name is Mayers, 21-Across's last name) |
| EDWARDII | English king overthrown by his wife and defeated by Robert the Bruce (6,1,1) |
| WESSEX | The name of this historic Saxon kingdom was used by Thomas Hardy to represent the fictional region in which he set his stories (6) |
| RUSSIANEMPIRE | Country and Western foundation associated with The Kingdom was run by those great people from The Palace (7,6) |
| OSIRIS | For the Egyptians, which resurrected god was the god of the dead and afterlife? (6) |
| THAILAND | This kingdom was the only nation in south-eastern Asia never to be taken over by a European power |
| AKHENATEN | A cult dedicated to a sun god was introduced by this pharaoh and his wife, Nefertiti (9) |
| SHAMROCK | In the name of God, was this the pick St Patrick left us with from the old sod? (8) |
