| CENTAUR | Half man, half-horse creature of Greek mythology said to descend from Ixion and the cloud nymph Nephele (7) |
| CENTAURS | Race of half-man, half-horse creatures in Greek mythology said to descend from the Thessalian king Ixion and the cloud Nephele (8) |
| KIN | Uncles and neph- ews |
| EDOM | Ancient middle-eastern kingdom south of the Dead Sea said to descend from the Old Testament patriarch Esau (4) |
| STEROPE | One of the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters, of Greek mythology, said to be the mother of Oenomaus by Ares (7) |
| ARES | One of the twelve Olympian gods of Greek mythology, said to have fathered the Amazons (4) |
| ENCELADUS | Giant of Greek mythology said to have been buried by Athena under the island of Sicily (9) |
| ROTA | Illa in qua Ixion volvitur (cf. e.g. Georgics 4.484) |
| AMBROSIA | Food of the gods in Greek mythology, said to be the source of their immortality (8) |
| ENDYMION | Figure in Greek mythology said to have been put to sleep by Zeus (8) |
| PHOENIX | Eagle-like bird of mythology said to set fire to itself and rise anew from the ashes every 500 years (7) |
| CENTAURUS | In Greek myth, the father of a race of hybrid half-human, half-horse creatures (9) |
| NEMESIS | Winged goddess of retribution in Greek mythology, said by writers such as Hesiod to be the daughter of Nyx (Night) (7) |
| ASPHODEL | Flower in Greek mythology said to cover the Elysian fields (8) |
| CERBERUS | 'Hound of Hades' in Greek mythology, said to have three heads (8) |
| DIONE | Titaness in Greek mythology said by Homer to be the mother, by Zeus, of Aphrodite (5) |
| ROC | Giant bird of Arabian mythology said to be able to carry off full-grown elephants for food, encountered by Sinbad the Sailor in the Arabian Nights (3) |
| ROSES | "Jean, Jean, ... are red; All of the leaves have gone green; And the clouds are so low; You can touch them and so; Come out to the meadow, Jean" |
| SHELLEY | Percy Bysshe -; poet who wrote Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark and The Cloud (7) |
| BUNYIP | Creature from Australian aboriginal mythology, said to inhabit swamps, creeks and billabongs (6) |
