| METAPHOR | Allegorical figure hit hard amidst ruins of Rome |
| MARXISM | Figure hit back against mass political ideology |
| CRIOSPHINX | Sheep-faced figure hit in the jaw by boxing reprobate, nursing mouth |
| MOLIERE | French writer's story set in the ruins of Rome (7) |
| MONICKER | Amid ruins of Rome, appropriate alias (8) |
| MORE | Further from the ruins of Rome (4) |
| METEOR | Shooting star in Spielberg film set in ruins of Rome (6) |
| PALERMO | In Italy showing a friend the ruins of Rome (7) |
| COMPUTERGAME | Screen entertainment set in ruins of Rome came good to get wrapped (8,4) |
| ROMANDELAROSE | Medieval French poem based on Guillaume de Lorris's allegorical account (later continued by Jean de Meun) of the progress of a courtly love affair (5,2,2,4) |
| EMBLEM | Symbol, logo or insignia; or; one of a series of allegorical pictures with accompanying mottoes or morals in books popular in medieval and Renaissance Europe (6) |
| ISENGRIM | Name of the dull-witted anthropomorphic wolf in the Reynard the Fox literary cycle of medieval allegorical fables (8) |
| MYTHOS | Allegorical beliefs of a culture |
| INFERNO | The first section of Dante's allegorical epic The Divine Comedy (7) |
| TAROT | A set of cards with allegorical pictures used in fortune-telling (5) |
| TAROTS | Allegorical decks of cards |
| EGO | Taking in allegorical sort of trip (3) |
| PARABLE | Allegorical story of Scotsman dividing pasty |
| LIGHT | William Holman Hunt's allegorical painting based on a NT Revelations verse, The ... Of The World |
| SPENSER | Commemorated in Poets' Corner, the author of The Shepheardes Calender and the allegorical romance celebrating Elizabeth I The Faerie Queene (7) |
