| MINOS | A king of Crete |
| IDOMENEO | Mozart opera about a king of Crete |
| IDOMENEUS | In Greek myths, a king of Crete who fought on the Greek side in the Trojan War (9) |
| NUMINOUS | Greek character, king of Crete accepting universal deity |
| CIETE | Mythical king of Crete whose wife, Pasiphae, gave birth to the Minotaur (5) |
| AHAB | Literary character described as "a Khan of the plank, and a king of the sea, and a great lord of Leviathans" |
| INFANTA | Formerly, a daughter of a king of Spain or Portugal (7) |
| SISYPHUS | In Greek myths, a king of Corinth punished for his misdeeds by having to roll a heavy stone up a hill for all eternity (8) |
| OFFA | The starting of a race by a king of old |
| DANAIDES | 50 mythological Greek daughters of a king of Argos, 49 of whom were condemned to pour water into perpetually-emptying jugs or craters (8) |
| CEPHEUS | Which constellation near the north celestial pole has a name derived from that of a king of Ethiopia (7) |
| ADMETUS | One of the Argonauts in Greek mythology; a king of Thessaly and husband of Alcestis (7) |
| MELCHIOR | Name of one of the Magi, represented as a king of Nubia (8) |
| LION | A king of the jungle out of millions |
| PHAROAH | Title of a king of ancient Egypt (7) |
| DAUPHIN | Eldest son of a king of France (7) |
| RHESUS | In Greek mythology, a king of Thrace who arrived in the tenth year of the Trojan War to aid Troy (6) |
| AGAMEMNON | In Greek myths, a king of Mycenae who led the Greeks at the siege of Troy (9) |
| DIOMEDES | In Greek myths, a king of Argos and suitor of Helen, who fought with the Greeks at Troy (8) |
| OFFASDYKE | Earthwork that runs along some of the England Wales border, named after a king of Mercia (5,4) |
