| RAMAYANA | Egyptian god may, with Aeneas oddly, form Sanskrit epic |
| HEDGEROW | Where nutters may gather - where God may be revealed |
| DIDO | Queen of Carthage in love with Aeneas |
| ACHAEMENIDES | Marooned Greek who sailed with Aeneas, Aeneid 2 |
| IRAE | "Tantaene animis caelestibus ____" (Aen 1.11): were the gods so cross with Aeneas? |
| TORYPARTY | May, with many others, try to pray for improvement (4,5) |
| POPLAR | Man in "The Darling Buds of May" with no family 8 (6) |
| LIGHTUP | Look cheerful, as one may with a cigarette |
| PREFER | Advance, as one may with charges |
| FLAG | One may, with drooping spirits - but it has its day! (4) |
| APPLEPIE | Dish that may, with a dash, come before order? (5,3) |
| BUDS | Shoots the darling ones of May with the Larkins (4) |
| ALCOTT | Author Louisa May with a Thoreau education |
| WITHDRAW | Refuse to communicate, as one may with banking app (8) |
| NAMEDAY | End May with a lively celebration (4,3) |
| READYMONEY | Prepared to meet clinician heading northeast at the end of May with cash |
| END | "My God, my God, may these things never ___, the sand and the sea, the rush of the water, the crash of the heavens, the prayer of man." -Hannah Szenes |
| RAMA | Hero of a Sanskrit epic |
| MAHABHARATA | Sanskrit epic of the Hindus describing the Kurukshetra War (11) |
| KRISHNA | Warrior hero of the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata |
