| SESTOS | Thrace town on the Hellespont |
| DARDANELLES | The strait which lies between the Aegean and the Sea of Marmara, known as the Hellespont in ancient times (11) |
| LYSANDER | Commander of the Spartan fleet that defeated the Athenians in the Hellespont in 405 BC (8) |
| HERO | Leading male character found her on the shores of the Hellespont (4) |
| LEANDER | In Greek myths, the lover of Hero, who drowned whilst trying to swim across the Hellespont (7) |
| XERXES | He built a bridge of boats across the Hellespont |
| HEROIC | Like Leander's efforts swimming the Hellespont? |
| BYRON | Poet who swam the Hellespont |
| NIGHTLY | How Leander swam the Hellespont |
| ABYDOS | Home of Leander, who regularly swam the Hellespont to visit Hero at Sestos (6) |
| HARPIES | In Thrace, these terrible winged creatures had been sent by Zeus to torment the blind Phineus as punishment for blinding his own sons on the advice of their scheming step-mother, whom Jason rescued. W |
| RHESUS | In Greek mythology, a king of Thrace who arrived in the tenth year of the Trojan War to aid Troy (6) |
| THRAX | A son of Ares, the Greek god of war, named after the ancient kingdom of Thrace (5) |
| CANOPUS | Town of ancient Thrace (7) |
| ANACREON | Greek lyric poet who helped found the colony of Abdera in Thrace (8) |
| PLOVDIV | Second-largest city of Bulgaria; as Trimontium, the capital of Roman Thrace (7) |
| RHAETIC | Relating to a series of rocks from Thrace I stumbled on (7) |
| TROGLODYTE | Fellow in basic accommodation possibly mined gold in ancient city on borders of Thrace |
| AUSTROS | Southerly winds which drove the fleet from Thrace, Aen. 3.61 (acc.) |
| MESTA | River of Thrace |
