| SCYLLA | Six-headed female sea monster believed to occupy a cave on the Strait of Messina across from the whirlpool Charybdis (6) |
| PYRAMIDS | "See the ... along the Nile; Watch the sunrise on a tropic isle; Just remember, darling, all the whi |
| KRAKEN | Fabled sea monster believed to dwell off the coast of Norway (6) |
| ANAPHORA | A rewrite of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" using ___: "A lamb quite little, Mary had / A lamb, fleece whi |
| FREEMIUM | A business model, especially on the Internet, whereby basic services are provided free of charge whi |
| TCM | Network that fills in the blanks of the 1954 film "Whi_e _hrist_as" |
| BLUE | - Grotto; natural sea cave on the coast of the island of Capri that was the sacred sanctuary of Tiberius (4) |
| APENNINES | Mountain range of central Italy extending from the Ligurian Alps in the north-west to the Strait of Messina in the south (9) |
| FATAMORGANA | Mirage of a sort commonly seen in the Strait of Messina, named after a character from Arthurian legend (4,7) |
| BASALT | Rock that forms the columns of Fingal's Cave on the island of Staffa (6) |
| CHARYBDIS | Sea creature who lived across the Strait of Messina from Scylla |
| KYLIEMINOGUE | Pop princess who sang with Nick Cave on the murder ballad Where the Wild Roses Grow (1995) |
| FATAMORGANE | A type of mirage, one especially seen in the Strait of Messina (4,7) |
| HAMSTER | The pet of a hot-headed female from Amsterdam? (7) |
| SICILY | The Strait of Messina separates it from Italy |
| CACUS | Monster killed by Hercules in his cave on 1ac, the story told in Aen. 8 |
| JOLENE | Song by Dolly Parton released in 1973 and a UK hit in 1976 about a red-headed female bank teller (6) |
| LUPERCAL | Cave on the Palatine in Rome where Romulus and Remus were suckled (8) |
| NEVERMIND | Don't trouble yourself with disease spreaders in cave on the rise (5,4) |
| MORGANA | Mirage in the Strait of Messina (4,7) |
