| LEANDER | Character of Greek myths who drowned in the Hellespont (7) |
| ARIADNE | Character of Greek myth who helped Theseus escape the Minotaur's labyrinth (7) |
| OEDIPUS | Character of Greek myth who married his mother (7) |
| CALYPSO | What name connects a style of West Indian music to a nymph of Greek myth who was the lover of Odysseus? (7) |
| LAOCOON | Trojan priest of Greek myth who warned his people against taking the Trojan horse into the city (7) |
| OUTFALL | Between the middle of July and the end of August, three people drowned in the Fal, where the river empties into the sea (7) |
| ICARUS | Character of Greek myth who flew too near the sun (6) |
| ANOUILH | Jean -; French dramatist noted for interpretations of Greek myths in his plays including Eurydice and Antigone (7) |
| HERO | In Greek myths, a priestess of Aphrodite, who killed herself when her lover drowned in the Hellespont (4) |
| LOEPOOL | Last April, three people who lived in Poole drowned in the largest freshwater lake in Cornwall (3,4) |
| CHIRRUP | Tweet's sound content reflecting on character of Greek (7) |
| LEDA | Moon that was discovered in 1974 and named for a woman in Greek myth who was believed to have been the mother (by Zeus, who had seduced her in the form of a swan) of Pollux and of Helen (4) |
| GRAPHIC | Dreadful rag on character of Greek clubs, giving explicit details |
| SHELLEY | Percy Bysshe ___, English Romantic poet who drowned in 1822 |
| DENNIS | ___ Rickman, son of Sharon Watts who drowned in the Thames in EastEnders (6) |
| ECHO | Mountain nymph of Greek myth who fell in love with Narcissus (4) |
| NARCISSUS | Beautiful youth of Greek myth who fell in love with his own reflection (9) |
| PERCYBYSSHESHELLEY | British romantic poet who drowned in the Ligurian Sea while sailing from Livorno to La Spezia |
| CIRCE | Enchantress of Greek myth who turned sailors into swine |
| MIDAS | Character of Greek myth, the "saddest of alchemists" |
