| ACHILLES | He is the principal character in Homer's Iliad, son of Peleus, king of the Myrmidons in Thessaly and Thetis. He and his closest friend and lover, Patroclus, joined the Greeks in the Trojan War. Who is |
| ODYSSEUS | The principal character in Homer's epic poem the Odyssey (8) |
| AEOLIC | The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis. |
| WATERSHIPDOWN | Tale in which the principal characters speak Lapine |
| ADMETUS | One of the Argonauts in Greek mythology; a king of Thessaly and husband of Alcestis (7) |
| LARISSA | Capital of Thessaly and, in myth, the birthplace of Achilles |
| SPEARS | Weapons for the Myrmidons |
| CISSEUS | Thracian king who was father of Theano, the wife of Antenor, and husband of Telecleia, a daughter of King Ilus of Troy, as related in Homer's Iliad (7) |
| MTOSSA | Abbreviated name of a mountain south of Olympus in Thessaly associated with the myth of the Aloadae giants; or, the highest peak in Tasmania (2,4) |
| IXION | King of the Lapiths in Thessaly said to have been the ancestor of the centaurs (5) |
| TELEMACHUS | Son of Odysseus and Penelope who is a central character in Homer's Odyssey (10) |
| PELIDES | Achilles, son of Peleus, a masculine patronym |
| ILIAD | It chronicles "the wrath of Peleus' son Achilles" |
| DAIL | The ___ Eireann is the principal chamber of the Irish parliament, the Oireachtas |
| NEREUS | Greek god identified in Homer's Iliad as the Old Man of the Sea (6) |
| NEPAL | Kathmandu is the principal city of this new republic, once a monarchy, in the Himalayas |
| THETIS | In Greek mythology, a sea nymph who bore the hero Achilles to the Phthian king Peleus (6) |
| CORINTH | City in the Peloponnese, in the Adriatic or in Thessaly (7) |
| AJAX | Mythological Greek hero, son of King Telamon, in Homer's Iliad |
| VALEOFTEMPE | Wooded valley between the mountains Olympus and Ossa in Thessaly, eastern Greece; associated with Apollo in ancient times (4,2,5) |
