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SCYLLASea nymph in Greek mythology who guarded the Straits of Messina with Charybdis (6)
HESPERIDES"The daughters of evening" in Greek mythology who guarded a tree which bore golden apples (10)
CERBERUSMonstrous dog of Greek mythology with three (sometimes fifty) heads who guarded the entrance to Hades (8)
IDUNNorse goddess of spring who guarded the golden apples that kept the gods eternally young (4)
THETISSea nymph in Greek mythology who bore Achilles to Peleius, king of Phthia (6)
CALAISMajor continental port on the Straits of Dover (6)
NEREIDSea nymph in Greek mythology
OCEANIThe Straits of Gibraltar, ____ ostium (vide Cic. Man. 33)
RHODESA giant statue of sun god Helios guarded the entrance to which harbour from about 280BC? (6)
PENANGWhich Malaysian island was formerly part of the Straits Settlements? (6)
SICILYThe Strait of Messina separates it from Italy
SOUNDSAs heard in the straits? (6)
AORTASMain arteries for feminists getting away from Strait of Messina (6)
OSTIUMEntrance, opening, eg Oceani ____, Straits of Gibraltar (vide Cic. De Imp. 33)
CALYPSOSea nymph in Greek mythology who detained Odysseus on the island of Ogygia (7)
APENNINESMountain range of central Italy extending from the Ligurian Alps in the north-west to the Strait of Messina in the south (9)
ATLANTISLegendary continent said to have sunk in the ocean west of the Straits of Gibraltar
CHARYBDISSea monster in Greek mythology that lived opposite Scylla in the Strait of Messina (9)
LADONSerpent-like dragon in Greek mythology that guarded the golden apples in the Garden of the Hesperides
KEYWESTIsland in the Straits of Florida associated with Ernest Hemingway and Tennessee Williams