| HESPERUS | In Greek myth, the personification of the evening star |
| OSSEO | 'Son of the Evening Star' in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic 1855 poem The Song of Hiawatha |
| PAPER | November 3, 1892: The first edition of The Evening Star appears with the slogan "A ___ For The People" on the front page |
| VESPER | Latin for evening; the planet Venus as the evening star; or, the Roman equivalent of Greek Hesperus (6) |
| GAIA | The personification of the Earth in Greek mythology (4) |
| UNCLESAM | The personification of the government of the United States (5,3) |
| PSYCHE | In Greek mythology, the personification of the soul (6) |
| ACHILLES | In Greek myths, the foremost of the Greek warriors at the siege of Troy, killed by Paris (8) |
| DAEDALUS | In Greek myth, the Athenian who built the labyrinth of the minotaur |
| HADES | In Greek myths, the underworld abode of the souls of the dead (5) |
| TAMENESS | The personification of the pure woman presented over end of prayer - feels rather domesticated in a |
| PALMER | Leader of the Ancients whose paintings including A Cornfield by Moonlight with the Evening Star and A Dream in the Apennine were influenced by William Blake (6) |
| ARGO | In Greek myths, the ship in which Jason sailed in search of the Golden Fleece (4) |
| AJAX | In Greek myths, the son of Telamon, a Greek hero of the Trojan War (4) |
| ATROPOS | In Greek myth, the eldest of the Three Fates (7) |
| ICHOR | In Greek myth, the blood of the gods (5) |
| ARIADNE | In Greek myth, the daughter of King Minos of Crete |
| ARTEMIS | In Greek myths, the virgin goddess of the hunt and the moon (7) |
| MOTHERNATURE | The personification of the power or force that controls the weather and living things (6,6) |
| BRITANNIA | Roman goddess, or the personification of the United Kingdom (9) |