| MEDIANT | The third in a musical scale |
| ZATOPEK | Nicknamed the "Czech Locomotive", the runner who won three gold medals at the 1952 Olympics, the third in a last-minute marathon, a distance he had never attempted before (7) |
| RAPHAEL | Raised at the court of Urbino, painter of The Madonna of the Pinks who was the third in a trio of revered Italian High Renaissance masters after Leonardo and Michelangelo (7) |
| DICTIONARY | Journal, about the third in a series, turned into a list of words (10) |
| HANNIBAL | Carthaginian general; or, the third in a series of suspense novels by Thomas Harris (8) |
| OCTAVE | Series of eight musical notes in a musical scale |
| TONIC | First note in a musical scale, also called the keynote (5) |
| REMI | Do's followers in a musical scale |
| ROCKYIII | 1982 movie starring 24-Down that's the third in a series |
| MINOR | Of a musical scale, having a semitone interval between the second and third degrees, and the fifth and sixth (5) |
| MAJOR | Of a musical scale, having an interval of a semitone between the third and fourth and the seventh and eighth notes (5) |
| EARTH | Planet is the third in distance from the sun (5) |
| ESCAPE | This is two points, in one sense, followed by a third in a different sense? Getaway! (6) |
| THIRD | If you pass the person coming third in a race, what position are you now in? (5) |
| EACH | --- way, a bet made on the same runner or contestant to win or come second or third in a race (4) |
| SHOW | Come in third, in a horse race |
| BOXCAR | On track at midnight to be the third in "King of the Road" (6) |
| INFERNO | 2016 action mystery film, the third in the Robert Langdon series (7) |
| CHILDREN | _ of Dune, 1976 sci-fi novel by Frank Herbert; the third in the Dune series (8) |
| SPYGLASS | The Amber _, novel by Philip Pullman, the third in His Dark Materials trilogy (8) |
