| APOET | Cocteau's "The Blood of ___" |
| EGER | Bull's Blood of ____ was a Hungarian red wine promoted in the UK in the 1960s and 1970s |
| EDEN | Blood of ___, Peter Gabriel song (4) |
| ICHOR | The blood of the gods, in Greek mythology, - its use in the fantasy genre is, according to Ursula LeGuin, the 'infallible touchstone of the seventh-rate' |
| RHESUS | The determination of the "Rh" factor in human blood involves reaction with the blood of this monkey |
| ANON | Unknowable author who mused, "The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr" (abbr.) |
| ANGE | Cocteau's "L'___ Heurtebise" |
| LES | Cocteau's "___ enfants terribles" |
| BETE | Cocteau's "La Belle et la ___" |
| ETLA | Cocteau's La Belle ___ Bate |
| PLATELET | Minute cell occurring in the blood of vertebrates and involved in clotting of the blood (8) |
| PEGASUS | It is described at the winged horse that sprang from the blood of Medusa when killed by Perseus. In Henry IV, Part 1 (act 4, scene 1), the Dauphin says of this horse: "To turn and wind a fiery ___ / A |
| HYACINTH | Word that refers to a blue gem of the ancients, possibly aquamarine or sapphire; cinnamon stone; brown, red or yellow zircon; purple of various hues; a bluebell/larkspur that sprang from the blood of |
| HORSEFLY | Large insect, the female of which sucks the blood of mammals (8) |
| LEECH | Worm of the class Hirudinea that feeds on the blood of other creatures (5) |
| MOSQUITO | Small slender fly, the female of which sucks the blood of animals |
| GOLDFINCH | Thistle-eating bird with a red face supposedly coloured by the blood of Jesus, hence symbolising Christ's crucifixion and its depiction in many religious Italian Renaissance paintings of the Madonna a |
| LEE | Christopher, actor who played the title role in the films Dracula and The Blood of Fu Manchu (3) |
| TRIP | "Bad was the blood of the song in the cab on your first ___ to L.A." ("Invisible String" lyric) |
| VAMPIRE | It drinks the blood of the living by night (7) |
