| FREYA | Norse goddess of love and beauty who travelled in a chariot drawn by cats; or, the name of George Osborne's pet tabby cat (5) |
| HERA | Goddess in a chariot drawn by peacocks |
| THOR | God who rides a chariot drawn by goats |
| ANGORA | Could be a goat or a rabbit or a cat or the last one eating egg (6) |
| ARES | God with a chariot drawn by fire-breathing stallions |
| ORLANDO | A city in Florida, a comic cat, or the male lead in As You Like It? (7) |
| MANUL | Another name for Pallas's cat, or the steppe cat, which is a small, long-haired cat native to deserts and rocky, mountainous regions from Tibet to Siberia. |
| BOTTICELLI | Nickname of the Italian Renaissance artist whose painting The Birth of Venus depicts the Roman goddess of love and beauty arriving on land in a giant scallop shell (10) |
| JASMINE | With a fragrance strongest at night and blossoms used to scent a variety of China tea, a flower symbolising love and beauty; the national flower of Pakistan (7) |
| EVANS | What was the real surname of novelist Mary Anne, who was published under the name of George Eliot? (5) |
| ELIJAH | Hebrew prophet of the Old Testament, who was taken up to heaven in a chariot of fire (6) |
| APHRODITE | In Greek myths, the goddess of love and beauty (9) |
| VENUS | "Morning star" named after the Roman goddess of beauty who is the patron of kitchen gardens (5) |
| ERIC | And 19. Novelist who wrote under the name of George Orwell (4,5) |
| FRIDAY | Which day takes its name from Frigg, Norse goddess of love? (6) |
| FOOD | Distances of 50 km can be travelled in a day in search of ___. |
| CUPID | The god of erotic love and beauty in Roman mythology |
| EROS | The primordial god of sexual love and beauty in Greek mythology |
| IDUN | Norse goddess of spring who guarded the golden apples that kept the gods eternally young (4) |
| HELEN | Beauty who was the cause of the Trojan war |
