| CYTHEREA | Epitheton Veneris: toponym from her island of birth, Aen. 1.257 |
| PERINATAL | Parental confusion about island of birth (9) |
| PARCE | "____ metu, Cytherea" (Aen 1.257), Jupiter telling Venus not to worry (5) |
| AMPERETURN | Unit of magnetomotive force equivalent to 1.257 gilberts |
| MADRAS | Named after the former toponym of the Indian city Chennai, with which they are all associated, a colourful checked cotton cloth, a scarf made of this or a medium-hot curry (6) |
| HOO | Old English for "hill" that, with "Sutton", "southern settlement", forms the toponym of the site in Suffolk of a famous Anglo-Saxon ship burial (3) |
| CALYPSO | Nymph who detained Odysseus on her island Ogygia for seven years (7) |
| INHERITRIX | She succeeds in subterfuge reportedly protecting her island |
| EMERALD | Lad excited after Irish girl describes her island home (7) |
| CIRCE | Enchantress in Greek mythology who detained Odysseus on her island (5) |
| HEIRESS | She's entitled to get her island included by European ship (7) |
| EDAX | Greedy: epitheton parasiti proprie in prologo Terentii 'Heauton Timorumenos' |
| ULTOR | Epitheton Martis, legendum est Ovid Fasti 5.575-7 |
| TONANTI | The Thunderer (dat.): non hoc quod nunc legis sed Iovis epitheton (7) |
| ASIA | Landmass whose toponym derivation, thought to come from the Greek for "sunrise" and Assyrian for "east", is uncertain, despite belonging to the world's largest continent (4) |
| DAIQUIRI | City in Cuba that's also a toponym |
| PRAHA | Returned a stringed instrument revealing Czech toponym (5) |
| GAUDIA | Pleasures, delights: Veneris....mutua ____ (Lucretius 4.1205) |
| CAPTAEST | She has been captivated; fera quaeque a lepore Veneris ____ ____, vide DRN 1.15-6 |
| SAUCIUS | Wounded: quid fias in proelio Veneris? Eg Pl. Persa 24 |
