| HESPERUS | Son of the dawn goddess Eos and a personification of the Evening Star (8) |
| 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 |
| UNCLESAM | A personification of the government of the United States (5,3) |
| GLORIANA | Protagonist of Edmund Spenser's epic poem The Faerie Queene (1590); a personification of Elizabeth I (8) |
| NIGHTJAR | A bird needs a pint at the end of the evening (8) |
| NIGHTCAP | A drink taken at the end of the evening immediately before going to bed (8) |
| ORIGINAL | Master playing Largo No. 2 in the middle of the evening |
| HADES | This underworld god is a personification of death whose realm, divided from the land of the living by a terrible river, resembles the Mesopotamian land of the dead. |
| SERENADE | Song suggestive of the evening (8) |
| ECHO | Oread said to be a personification of a Greek word for "sound" and whose name is given to the phenomenon of the reflection of sound waves (4) |
| EAGLE | Bird of prey that was a personification of the Greek god Zeus (5) |
| PSYCHE | Described in an allegory by Apuleius, a mythological princess loved by Cupid who became a personification of the soul (6) |
| IRIS | Flower depicted in paintings by Vincent van Gogh; or, a personification of the rainbow in Greek mythology (4) |
| 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) |
| ATHENA | The patron goddess of Athens, typically allegorized into a personification of wisdom. (6) |
| VESPER | Latin for evening; the planet Venus as the evening star; or, the Roman equivalent of Greek Hesperus (6) |
| GONCHAROV | Russian novelist Ivan ____ created the character Oblomov, a personification of procrastination and idleness |
| DAWN | Eos and Aurora were the Greek and Roman goddesses of this (4) |
| JOHN | - Bull, Dr Arbuthnot's satirical character used as a personification of England or a typical Englishman (4) |
