| LARISSA | Capital of the Greek region Thessaly |
| THRACE | Car reversed in the Greek region (6) |
| MTOSSA | Abbreviated name of a mountain south of Olympus in Thessaly associated with the myth of the Aloadae giants; or, the highest peak in Tasmania (2,4) |
| ACHILLES | He is the principal character in Homer's Iliad, son of Peleus, king of the Myrmidons in Thessaly and Thetis. He and his closest friend and lover, Patroclus, joined the Greeks in the Trojan War. Who is |
| THEBES | Chief city of the ancient Greek region of Boeotia, destroyed by Alexander the Great in 336 BC (6) |
| THESSALONIKI | Seaport in north-east Greece, capital of the modern Greek region of Macedonia (12) |
| THESSALY | Greek region of which Larissa is the capital |
| ADMETUS | One of the Argonauts in Greek mythology; a king of Thessaly and husband of Alcestis (7) |
| IXION | King of the Lapiths in Thessaly said to have been the ancestor of the centaurs (5) |
| IONIA | Miletus was the most important of the 12 cities in this ancient Greek region |
| ACHAEA | Greek region of the Peloponnese, 12 cities of which formed a league in ancient times (6) |
| GREGORIAN | Greek region oddly adopting a certain kind of calendar (9) |
| ATTICA | Room wanted by the leading character in Greek region (6) |
| ATTIC | A bailout ultimately leads to rapid contraction of Greek region |
| ELIS | Greek region bordering the Ionian Sea |
| IONIAN | Of a Greek region |
| AEOLIC | The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis. |
| CORINTH | Greek city in the Adriatic or in Thessaly (7) |
| IONIC | From an ancient Greek region a€“ kind of bond in chemistry (5) |
| ARCADY | Bucolic Greek region, in poesy |
