### Clue: Heroic lover with piercing eye (7)
### Answer: LEANDER 
 ### Explanation: Definition: Heroic lover
  AND(in addition to,with) **contained in**(piercing) LEER(to look at,eye with lascivious interest, as associated, rightly or wrongly, with "dirty old men")
Defn:  Mythical lover of Hero, thus Heroic lover.