| LAIUS | King of Thebes in Greek mythology; son of Labdacus and father, by Jocasta, of Oedipus (5) |
| OEDIPUS | Son of King Laius and Queen Jocasta of Thebes who killed his father and married his mother |
| FAUXPAS | Starts filming actors undermining mystery man and fathers by mistake (4,3) |
| NIOBE | Queen of Thebes in Greek mythology turned to weeping stone after her fourteen children are slain by Artemis and Apollo (5) |
| CREON | King of Thebes, in myth |
| IXION | In mythology, son of Ares bound to a fiery wheel by Zeus as punishment for attempting to seduce his wife, Hera (5) |
| EREBUS | Primordial god of darkness in Greek mythology, son of Chaos and brother and husband of Nyx (Night) (6) |
| OLENUS | In Greek mythology, son of Hephaestus and father of Helike and Aex (6) |
| CADMUS | Founder and the first king of Thebes in Greek mythology (6) |
| TROILUS | In Greek mythology, son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba, who was killed by Achilles (7) |
| JOCASTA | Queen of Thebes in Greek mythology who married her son Oedipus (7) |
| AJAX | In Greek mythology, son of Telamon, a hero of the Trojan War (4) |
| ICARUS | In Greek mythology, son of Daedalus who drowned in the Aegean (6) |
| ANACREONTICS | Weird goings-on about a king of Thebes in Greek poems (12) |
| MINER | Clementine's father, by occupation |
| ORESTES | In Greek mythology, son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra (7) |
| SEMELE | Princess of Thebes in Greek mythology who bore the god Dionysus to Zeus (6) |
| TIRESIAS | Blind prophet of Thebes in Greek mythology (8) |
| APOLLO | In classical mythology, son of Zeus and Leto and brother of Artemis (6) |
| EPIGONI | Play by Sophocles about the sons of the Seven against Thebes in Greek legend (7) |
