| PLUTARCH | Greek writer of Parallel Lives |
| AESOP | Greek writer of the fable of the hare and the tortoise or the fox and the grapes |
| EUCLID | Ancient Greek writer of the Elements treatise, called the 'father of geometry' (6) |
| SAPPHO | Ancient Greek writer of poems about love (6) |
| HOMER | Ancient Greek writer of The Odyssey and The Iliad |
| ARISTOPHANES | Ancient Greek writer of The Frogs and The Birds |
| SOPHOCLES | Greek writer of tragedies which include Antigone and Oedipus The King |
| AESCHYLUS | Ancient Greek writer of the drama Seven against Thebes (9) |
| NORTH | Translator whose Englished version of Plutarch's Bioi paralleloi (Parallel Lives) was a source for Shakespeare's Roman plays (5) |
| KAZANTZAKIS | Nikos, Greek author of Zorba the Greek (11) |
| AWAKE | 2012 TV series starring Jason Isaacs as a man living two parallel lives (5) |
| HARMONY | A combination of simultaneously sounded musical notes producing an aesthetically agreeable sound; the art, science or study of chords; or, a collation of parallel narratives (7) |
| PLATO | Greek author of the "Republic" |
| BARCODE | Machine-readable code in the form of numbers and a pattern of parallel lines (7) |
| HERRINGBONE | A pattern used in textiles and brickwork consisting of a series of parallel vs or zigzags (11) |
| NOTANOTHER | Name of theory originally left out of parallel universe in silence (3,7,4) |
| WORD | Name of theory originally left out of parallel universe in silence (3,7,4) |
| STATUARY | Pieces of sculpture mostly standing on a pair of parallel lines |
| HARP | Plucked musical instrument consisting of a frame supporting a series of parallel strings (4) |
| BLOWBYBLOW | Detailed description of parallel bursts of wind (4-2-4) |
