| ADONIS | A youth of great beauty in Greek mythology who was favourite of the goddess Aphrodite (6) |
| PROWLED | Went hunting for wife - was favourite? |
| DIVISION | Former princess, person of great beauty in part (8) |
| EVENTEMPERED | Calm northern valley of great beauty in poetic evening sunset colour |
| AENEAS | Mythical hero of Troy and Rome who was son of Anchises and the goddess Aphrodite (6) |
| PELOPS | Son of Tantalus in Greek mythology who was killed by his father and served to the gods as a meal (6) |
| VISION | A supernatural apparition; sight; TV as opposed to radio/sound; or, a person/thing of great beauty (6) |
| CRONUS | Titan in Greek mythology who was the father of Zeus (6) |
| KRONOS | Titan in Greek mythology who was the father of Zeus (6) |
| DAPHNE | Nymph in Greek mythology who was transformed into a bay tree (6) |
| XANADU | Place of great beauty, luxury and contentment (6) |
| ATHENA | In Greek myth, counterpart of the goddess Minerva |
| NIMROD | Favourite of the Enigma Variations? (6) |
| DIWALI | Hindu celebration of the goddess Lakshmi (6) |
| SELENE | Greek equivalent of the goddess Luna |
| SCALES | Symbol of the goddess Justitia |
| POPE | Poet, Kit-Cat, Scriblerian, master of the heroic couplet and celebrator of the goddess Dulness in The Dunciad, whose villa in Twickenham, as seen in a painting by Turner, was demolished, leaving only |
| LEANDER | In Greek legend, a youth of Abydos who drowned in the Hellespont (7) |
| APHRODITE | The goddess of love and beauty in Greek mythology |
| IKAT | Derived from a Malay word meaning to tie/bind, a traditional method of warp dyeing/weaving in Central Asia that was a favourite of the late Oscar de la Renta (4) |
