| ODIN | Foremost of old deities in Norse? (4) |
| TITAN | Member of the second generation of deities in Greek mythology |
| SATYR | One of a class of deities in Greek mythology represented as goatlike men (5) |
| ENNEAD | Group of nine; originally a group of nine deities in Egyptian mythology (6) |
| AVATARS | The descents of Hindu deities in a visible form (7) |
| SHIVA | One of the principal deities in Hinduism |
| ICHOR | Blood of the deities in Greek |
| ERINYES | Trio of avenging deities in Greek mythology comprising Alecto, Tisiphone and Megaera |
| FAUNS | Rural deities in Roman mythology |
| TIED | Drew on some Greek deities, in return (4) |
| GODS | Deities in high theatre seats? |
| ZOOMORPHS | Deities in the form of animals |
| NYMPHS | Mythical nature deities such as the anthousai of the flowers, dryads of the trees, oreads of the mountains or nereids of the sea (6) |
| ATHEISM | Disbelief in, or denial of, the existence of God or deities (7) |
| KRISHNA | In Hinduism, the most celebrated of the deities whose story is told in the Mahabharata (7) |
| ITEMISED | Made list of new deities around first of May (8) |
| DRYADS | In Greek mythology, deities or nymphs of the woods (6) |
| TITANS | A family of Greek deities, the sons and daughters of Uranus and Gaea (6) |
| ASURA | In Hinduism, a class of deities defined by their opposition to the devas (5) |
| OLYMPUS | The highest mountain in Greece; legendary home of 12 major Greek deities including Aphrodite, Apollo, Ares, Artemis and Athena (7) |
