| UMA | Indian goddess after whom an actress is named |
| MARILYNMONROE | Hollywood icon who said: "Dreaming about being an actress is more exciting than being one" (7,6) |
| ISIS | Prinicipal egyptian goddess after whom a bearded iris is named (4) |
| MAIA | Roman fertility goddess after whom the fifth month is named (4) |
| ATHENA | Goddess after whom Greece's capital is named |
| EOS | Greek dawn goddess after whom Prince Albert named his favourite greyhound, as seen with a top hat in a painting by Sir Edwin Landseer (3) |
| ADELAIDE | ____ of Saxe-Meiningen is the queen after whom an Australian state capital is named (8) |
| VOLTA | Italian scientist after whom an electrical unit is named |
| BALLIOL | John de --, c1208-1268, after whom an Oxford college is named (7) |
| TETRAZZINI | Luisa ___, Italian coloratura soprano after whom an American dish is named |
| ASPERGER | Hans, Austrian paediatrician after whom an autism spectrum disorder is named (8) |
| PITTRIVERS | Augustus ---, archaeologist after whom an Oxford museum is named |
| ATLAS | Greek god after whom an ocean is named |
| AMPERE | French physicist after whom an electric unit is named |
| SOMERVILLE | Mary ---, pioneering Scottish scientist after whom an Oxford college is named |
| DULLES | US statesman after whom an international airport serving Washington DC is named |
| EREBUS | Greek god of darkness after whom an Antarctic volcano is named (6) |
| OLIVIER | Laurence ___, English actor after whom an annual theatre award is named (7) |
| MIDLIFECRISIS | Goddess, after film, cried uncontrollably - this is no juvenile trauma! (7,6) |
| DEVI | Indian goddess or Indian maiden (4) |
