| DARTAGNAN | He joined the Three Musketeers and somehow got a grand tan (9) |
| PROMULGATED | Group met lad and somehow got it spread abroad (11) |
| HEARTENED | Heard teen somehow got a morale boost (9) |
| IRON | The three musketeers and D'Artagnan are the heroes of the 1939 film, The Man In The ... Mask |
| MASK | The Three Musketeers and D'Artagnan are the heroes of the 1939 film, The Man In The Iron ... |
| ORPHEUS | He joined the Argonauts, and his music kept them from peril. On his return, he married Eurydice, who was soon killed by a snakebite. He followed her to the land of the dead. Hades, king of the underwo |
| DUMAS | Surname of the author of "The Three Musketeers" and "The Count of Monte Cristo"(5) |
| LARCENOUS | With the propensity to lift and, somehow, rouse clan (9) |
| NARROWISH | New dart is hard and somehow small in width (9) |
| PENETRATE | Get through and somehow enter into one's head (9) |
| VARNISHED | Shiver and somehow get covered by coat (9) |
| CATHEDRAL | Intoxicated, set down and somehow halted car as possible 13Ac - see 24dn 4dn (8,9) |
| LIGHTYEAR | Fibber describing golf - and somehow they can make a huge distance (5,4) |
| PERIPHERY | Be inquisitive about English reprobate he joined outside |
| REED | The Three Musketeers and Gladiator actor, Oliver ... (4) |
| KEHUYQUAN | Actor who said, in his Oscar acceptance speech, "My journey started on a boat . . . and somehow, I ended up here" |
| HACKNEYED | Cheeky and somehow overfamiliar (9) |
| DIAGNOSED | Proved nature of illness and somehow aided song composition |
| TRIOS | The Three Musketeers and Destiny's Child |
| RAQUELWELCH | US actress born in 1940, whose films include One Million Years B.C., The Three Musketeers and Bedazzled (6,5) |
