| GORDIANKNOT | In Greek legend, a complicated fastening Alexander the Great cut with a sword (7,4) |
| GORDIAN | --- knot, a complicated and intricate fastening that Alexander the Great cut with a sword (7) |
| KNOTTIER | More complicated, fastening belt |
| LEANDER | In Greek legend, a youth of Abydos who drowned in the Hellespont (7) |
| MIDAS | In Greek legend, a king of Phrygia given the power of turning everything he touched to gold (5) |
| LOTUS | In Greek legend, a plant whose fruit caused bliss and idleness (5) |
| CENTAUR | In Greek legend, a creature half man, half horse (7) |
| PANDORASBOX | In Greek legend, container of all the evils (8,3) |
| ANDROCLES | In Roman legend, a slave whose life was spared in the arena by a lion from whose paw he had extracted a thorn (9) |
| ATHENS | In legend, a messenger ran about 40km from the town of Marathon to where, the feat said to be the origin of the marathon running event? (6) |
| ALANADALE | In the Robin Hood legend, a wandering minstrel who became a member of the Merry Men |
| DAMOCLES | In classical legend, a sycophant forced by Dionysius to sit under a sword suspended by a hair (8) |
| SLASH | Long sweeping cut with a sword or knife (5) |
| FAUN | In Roman legend, a rural deity represented as a man with a goat's ears, horns, tail and hind legs (4 |
| THOR | In Norse legend a god, though in US a king |
| LANCELOT | In Arthurian legend, a knight of the Round Table, the lover of Queen Guinevere (8) |
| TENEDOS | In Greek legend, the base of the Greek fleet during the siege of Troy (7) |
| TARPEIA | In Roman legend, a vestal virgin who betrayed Rome to the Sabines (7) |
| PIEDSULLIVAN | Gave a TV legend a banana cream to the face? |
| LAKE | In some legends, a woman living in this gave Arthur his sword |
