| IDOMENEUS | Mythical king of Crete who led the Cretan forces in the Trojan War; grandson of Minos and Pasiphae (9) |
| AGAMEMNON | Mythological king of Mycenae, commander of the Greek forces in the Trojan War (9) |
| ARIADNE | In Greek mythology, the daughter of Minos and Pasiphae who gave Theseus the thread with which he found his way out of the Minotaur's labyrinth |
| MINOS | Mythical king of Crete who was the son of Zeus and Europa |
| MINOTAUR | Creature with the head of a bull on the body of a man who lived at the centre of the Cretan Labyrinth, in Greek mythology |
| CIETE | Mythical king of Crete whose wife, Pasiphae, gave birth to the Minotaur (5) |
| ATREUS | Mythical king of Mycenae who fathered the Trojan War heroes Agamemnon and Menelaus (6) |
| EUROPA | Mother of King Minos of Crete, who was abducted by Zeus (6) |
| PASIPHAE | Mythical wife of Minos and mother of the Minotaur |
| CARME | Small moon (with a radius of 14 miles) discovered in 1938 by Seth Barnes Nicholson and named for the mother of the Cretan deity Britomartis (5) |
| PHAEDRA | Daughter of Minos and wife of Theseus, in Greek mythology (7) |
| GILGAMESH | Semi-mythical king of the ancient Sumerian city-state of Uruk, noted for his friendship with the wild man Enkidu (9) |
| IDOMENEO | Mozart opera named after a mythical king of Crete |
| ODYSSEUS | Mythical king of Ithaca, hero of the siege of Troy (8) |
| OEDIPUS | Mythical king of Thebes, who unknowingly killed his father and married his mother (7) |
| ARMADA | Force in the Trojan War |
| OEDYPUS | Mythical king of Thebes who murdered his father and married his mother (7) |
| THESEUS | Mythical king of Athens who killed the minotaur (7) |
| SARAH | - - - Parish, Cutting It actress who now plays Pasiphae in BBC One's Atlantis (5) |
| AEACUS | Greek king who rules Hades alongside Minos and Rhadamanthos |
