| SHIVA | Major Hindu god known as 'The Destroyer' (5) |
| VISHNU | Hindu god known as the preserver, forming the Trimurti with Brahma the creator and Shiva the destroyer (6) |
| KAMA | Hindu God known as most amorous, basically (4) |
| NEREUS | Greek sea god known as the wise and gentle Old Man of the Sea (6) |
| CONAN | First he was the Barbarian, then the Destroyer (5) |
| WYATT | Name shared by an English sonneteer, the Fonthill Abbey designer dubbed "the Destroyer" and also a gambling Wild West lawman (5) |
| BADTO | George Thorogood & The Destroyers hit: "___ ___ the Bone" |
| KRISHNA | Major Hindu deity W as the eighth avatar of Vishnu (7) |
| SEKHMET | In Egyptian religion, she was a goddess of war and the destroyer of the enemies of the sun god Re. She was associated both with disease and with healing and medicine. She was the companion of the god |
| SUDRAS | Members of the lowest of the four major Hindu castes of traditional Indian society |
| RAMA | Major Hindu deity, the seventh avatar of Vishnu (4) |
| ARES | God known by the epithet "enyalios" ("warlike") |
| APOLLO | God known for male beauty |
| SIVA | The destroyer, one of the three chief divinities of the later Hindu pantheon |
| PARANOIA | Condition called "the destroyer" in the Kinks song "Destroyer" |
| BRAHMA | Creator god in Hinduism, forming a triad with Vishnu (the Preserver) and Shiva (the Destroyer) (6) |
| DAVE | ___ Bautista Dune actor who portrayed Drax the Destroyer in the 2014 film Guardians of the Galaxy |
| BAUTISTA | Dave _, actor reprising his role as Drax The Destroyer in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 (8) |
| APOLLYON | The destroyer, a name given to the Devil in the Book of Revelation |
| ABADDON | Hebrew name for the destroyer or the devil (Rev IX, 11) (7) |
