| GORGO | This British sci-fi film monster of Godzilla vintage had the same name as the 5th century BCE queen |
| CATANIA | This city in Italy was founded in 729 BCE by Chalcidians and then renamed Aetna in the 5th century BCE. It is home to ancient Roman and Greek ruins and structures, and it was rebuilt in Baroque style |
| MIDAS | King whose many daughters all had the same name? (5) |
| SANJOSE | Dionne Warwick asked the way to this Californian town with the same name as the capital of Costa Rica (3,4) |
| FLORENCE | It was founded as a Roman military colony about the 1st century BCE. It is the capital of Tuscany. In The Taming of the Shrew (act 1, scene 1), Lucentio says, "A merchant of great traffic through the |
| HALLOWEEN | 2018 film starring Jamie Lee Curtis with the same name as the 1978 original (9) |
| BALTIMORE | Ontario village that has the same name as the largest city in Maryland in The States |
| ORCA | Mammal at the top of its food chain that acquired its old name as the killer whale from sailors but is the largest of the dolphins (4) |
| TITLETRACK | What is a song that has the same name as the album on which it appears? (5,5) |
| ASBESTOS | Which town in Quebec, Canada, has the same name as the fibrous mineral mined there? (8) |
| TACTICUS | During the 4th century BCE, he wrote On the Defense of Fortifications, one chapter of which was devoted to cryptography, making it the earliest treatise on the subject. |
| TUNISIA | According to Greek legend, Dido founded the city of Carthage in this country in the 9th century BCE. That city is now a suburb of the country's capital. |
| ROXANAS | Women with the same first name as the wife of Alexander the Great (7) |
| LABELLED | Got a name as the young man who rang the beauty of the ball (8) |
| LEOII | Pope with the same name as the current one 12 iterations ago |
| ANTIOCH | Now in Turkey, this city was founded by one of Alexander the Great's generals in the 4th century BCE |
| SOAMES | 1970 British sci-fi film, The Mind of Mr. ___ |
| AVA | Artificially intelligent character played by Alicia Vikander in the British sci-fi film Ex Machina |
| LETMEGO | Andrew Garfield, Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightley play doomed classmates in the 2010 British sci-fi film, Never ___ |
| FDR | Initials of the president who had the same last name as Teddy |
