| ARCADIANSTAG | Great beast with golden antlers, the subject of the third of the twelve Labours of Hercules (8,4) |
| LION | The first of the twelve labours of Heracles was to slay this creature (6,4) |
| NEMEAN | The first of the twelve labours of Heracles was to slay this creature (6,4) |
| TWELVE | Number of objects in a dozen, sides of a dodecagon or labours of Hercules (6) |
| TREVI | Subject of the third movement of Respighi's "Fontane di Roma" |
| HYDRA | Creature slain in the second labour of Hercules |
| NEMEANLION | A labour of Hercules |
| AMOS | Third of the twelve minor prophetic books of the Old Testament, composed during the reign of King Jeroboam ll of Israel (c. 786-746 BC) (4) |
| MOONRAKER | Third of the twelve James Bond novels written by Ian Fleming (1955) |
| HERACLES | One of the labours of this warrior was to bring the "monstrous watchdog of the underworld" to the land of the living; after succeeding in doing this, he returned this creature to the underworld. |
| VAISYA | Member of the third of the main four Hindu castes, comprising the merchants and farmers (6) |
| THRONE | An angel of the third of the nine orders into which the angels are traditionally divided in medieval angelology |
| EZEKIEL | The third of the Latter Prophets in the Old Testament of the Bible (7) |
| TIERCE | Sequence of three cards of the same suit; or, the third of the parrying positions in fencing (6) |
| REEVE | Profession of Oswald, the titular narrator of the third of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (5) |
| SENGLEA | With Cospicua and Vittoriosa, it is the third of the Three Cities, across the Grand Harbour from Valletta on Malta (7) |
| COTTUS | Together with Briareus and Gyges, the third of the Hecatoncheires of Greek mythology (6) |
| CERBERUS | Name of the beast captured by Heracles in the last of his Twelve Labours (8) |
| CRUSADER | Richard I was among the leaders of the Third of these in 1189-92 (8) |
| TERCE | Originally, the third of the seven canonical hours of the Divine Office |
