| TAVERNER | Rat never was transformed into publican (8) |
| INVERTEBRATES | I bet rats never troubled cockroaches, for instance |
| CALLISTO | Galilean moon of Jupiter named after a nymph who was transformed into a bear by Hera and placed in the sky as Ursa Major by Zeus (8) |
| CLUELESS | Stupid Sherlock Holmes never was (8) |
| OSOLEMIO | Song that Elvis's "It's Now or Never" was based on |
| DAPHNE | Naiad who was transformed into a laurel tree (6) |
| SCILLA | In mythology, a sea nymph who was transformed into a monster. |
| MEDUSA | She was transformed into a Gorgon by Athena |
| CLUNES | Which town was transformed into the fictional Wirrawee for the ABC TV mini-series of John Marsden's |
| ARACHNE | Mythological Greek weaver who was transformed into a spider by Athena (7) |
| ALCYONE | In Greek mythology, the daughter of Aeolus who drowned herself in grief at her husband's death and was transformed into a kingfisher (7) |
| ALCHEMY | Dire Straits' tour for Love Over Gold was transformed into this live album (7) |
| STALIN | Through his dictatorial rule, the Soviet Union was transformed into a major world power |
| ACIS | Sicilian shepherd in Ovid's Metamorphoses whose blood was transformed into a river by his lover, the nereid Galatea (4) |
| DEER | In Greek myth, the creature which the hunter Actaeon was transformed into by Artemis (4) |
| POTTS | Mrs. ___ (punnily named Beauty and the Beast character who was transformed into a vessel for tea) |
| NOONEWILLTAKEHERPLACE | "We never should've picked a name / Cause now she has a face / And now no matter what we do / ____" (James Blunt, The Girl That Never Was) |
| WAR | "There never was a good" one, according to Franklin |
| ABAD | "There never was... ___ peace": Franklin |
| ATSEA | Confused, as the Queen's Navee leader never was (2,3) |
