Across
- 3. Wall of shields and spears
- 5. Paradise for heroes
- 7. Solar wind’s light show
- 10. Portmanteau of two ancient universities
- 12. Betrayer with scissors
- 16. Mass departure led by a reluctant prophet
- 18. King whose touch was too golden
- 19. Giant undone by a shepherd’s sling
- 22. Trojan who fled to found a future empire
- 28. Islander who cursed in poetry
- 29. Trilingual key to ancient scripts
- 30. Three‑headed guardian of the underworld
- 34. Shield borrowed from a goddess
- 37. Fossil with three‑lobed body
- 38. Mischief in midsummer form
- 39. Magician‑duke who conjured a storm
- 41. Memory aid for the forgetful
- 43. Flyer who ignored altitude warnings
- 45. King who misjudged his daughters
- 46. A planet’s farthest point from the Sun
- 47. Traveler who took the wrong boat
- 50. One‑eyed shepherd of sheep and trouble
- 52. Polluted portmanteau atmosphere
- 53. Narrow pass where 300 held the line
- 54. Metal whose name means “heavy stone”
- 56. Curious opener of forbidden things
- 57. River sworn upon by gods
- 58. What comes next, in many myths
Down
- 1. Late‑morning portmanteau meal
- 2. Maze built for a monster
- 4. who carved his laws in stone
- 6. Ghostly dinner guest
- 8. Mathematician who moved the world
- 9. Coiled fossil named for a ram‑horned god
- 11. Exclamation of sudden insight
- 13. Sun god who drove a fiery chariot
- 14. Food that fell without farming
- 15. Titan who carried the sky
- 17. Wanderer who outwitted a giant
- 20. Divine rebalancer of hubris
- 21. Sea monster invoked in ancient poetry
- 23. Strongman whose power lay in his hair
- 24. Sorceress who preferred her guests as pigs
- 25. Tower that scrambled tongues
- 26. Idea born in the mind
- 27. Word that packs two meanings in one suitcase
- 30. Mythic hybrid and genetic term
- 31. Hybrid utensil
- 32. Monster that multiplied when attacked
- 33. Monster who hated mead‑hall music
- 35. Beacon powered by a black hole
- 36. voice that answered in riddles
- 40. Man condemned to endless effort
- 42. Tormented by unreachable fruit
- 44. Bull‑headed resident of that maze
- 48. Same protons, different neutrons
- 49. Hero who fought with grip alone
- 51. Garden lost to a single bite
- 55. Disorder’s favorite metric
- 57. Creature who punished wrong answers