| ARACHNE | Weaver transformed into a spider by Athena |
| MEDUSA | She was transformed into a Gorgon by Athena and finally decapitated by Perseus (6) |
| 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) |
| MINT | Named after a nymph transformed into a plant by Persephone, a herb used for fresh fruit salad, sauce for lamb, peas, courgette fritatta or mango dishes (4) |
| ACTAEON | Mythological Greek hunter transformed into a stag by Artemis and killed by his own hounds (7) |
| CAIRNGORM | Could a minor crag be transformed into a high mountain? (9) |
| IOWAN | A wino transformed into a statesman (5) |
| CAULDRON | A cold urn transformed into a hot pot (8) |
| SCILLA | In mythology, a sea nymph who was transformed into a monster. |
| SCYLLA | In Greek mythology a sea nymph transformed into a sea monster (6) |
| ACIS | Sicilian shepherd in Ovid's Metamorphoses whose blood was transformed into a river by his lover, the nereid Galatea (4) |
| BOTTOM | Character whose head is transformed into a donkey in A Midsummer Night's Dream (6) |
| THEMASK | Film starring Jim Carrey as a bank clerk who is transformed into a superhero (3,4) |
| LARLESIENNE | Short story by Alphonse Daudet which he transformed into a play, for which Georges Bizet composed incidental music (11) |
| ALIENATION | One line transformed into a complex Brechtian effect (10) |
| DAPHNE | Naiad who was transformed into a laurel tree (6) |
| MONSTER | Mr Stone transformed into a hideous beast (7) |
| NOTIONAL | Imaginary number transformed into a real finally |
| PROBATIONER | Novice transformed into a penetrating researcher |
| SEAHORSE | She arose, transformed into a fish (8) |
