| RENI | Myth of Hercules painter |
| SPINDLE | Yarn-twisting stick symbolic of the thread of life or fate in the myth of the Moirai or the tale of Sleeping Beauty (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) |
| PLEIADES | Open star cluster in Taurus also called Seven Sisters because of the myth of the daughters of Atlas and Pleione (8) |
| ORPHEUS | Palme d'Or winner in 1959, this Brazilian film retold the myth of Eurydice in the favelas of Rio, Bl |
| ROSENBERG | Alfred, German Nazi politician and author of The Myth of the Twentieth Century who was hanged for war crimes in 1946 (9) |
| BOUNCE | Matthew Syed book on sporting performance, subtitled "The myth of talent and the power of practice" |
| PROSERPINA | Ancient Roman goddess whose story is the basis of a myth of springtime |
| CLASH | --- of the Titans, epic lm loosely based on the Greek myth of Perseus (5) |
| PLAXTOL | Kent village associated with the myth of 'The Haunting of Lady Vain' |
| ABYDOS | Ancient city in Asia Minor; home of Leander in the myth of Hero and Leander (6) |
| OXLEY | Which surveyor and explorer created the myth of the inland sea by reporting that the Macquarie and the Lachlan Rivers both ended in swamps and that this might mark the beginning of a sea? (5) |
| SILVERFOX | Animal in the creation myth of the Achomawi people of Northern California |
| ECHO | Word with its roots in both the physical phenomenon of sound reflection and the myth of a repetitive oread; or, a memory evoked (4) |
| ESSAY | "The Myth of Sisyphus", for example |
| CAMUS | 'The Myth of Sisyphus' author |
| RACE | Competition central to the myth of Atalanta |
| DEBUNK | Explode pretensions, myth, of |
| EDDA | Northern myth of summer's incomplete return? (4) |
| LEGEND | The myth of the foot? (6) |
