| NOX | Roman goddess of night (3) |
| NYX | Greek goddess of night (3) |
| OPS | Name of a Roman goddess of plenty and wealth; or, a short word for swift acts, telephonists, surgical procedures or military manoeuvres of stealth (3) |
| PAX | The Roman goddess of peace (3) |
| MAY | Hawthorn or its blossom; or, a month that takes its name from a Roman goddess of fertility and spring, during which Beltane is observed on its first day (3) |
| HECATE | Greek goddess of night and witchcraft |
| FLORA | Plant life collectively; or, the Roman goddess of (blossoming) plants and of the season of spring (5 |
| MINERVA | Roman goddess of wisdom who appears on the Great Seal of the US state of California |
| 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) |
| BELLONA | Roman goddess of war, sometimes identified as the wife or sister of Mars; counterpart of the Greek Enyo (7) |
| DIANA | Roman goddess of hunting and of the moon (5) |
| ATHENA | Roman goddess of wisdom who was born fully armed from the head of Zeus (6) |
| VESTA | Roman goddess of the hearth and home; or, a name for an item stored in a type of box collected in phillumeny (5) |
| THEBIRTHOFVENUS | Painting by Sandro Botticelli depicting the Roman goddess of love on a scallop shell (3,5,2,5) |
| VENUS | "Morning star" named after the Roman goddess of beauty who is the patron of kitchen gardens (5) |
| CEREAL | Name derived from the Roman goddess of agriculture for a grass such as barley, oats, rye or wheat cultivated for its grains of the same name (6) |
| LUNA | Roman goddess of the moon, counterpart of the Greek Selene (4) |
| AURORA | Phenomenon named for the Roman goddess of the dawn but only visible at night |
| VENUSBERG | Setting of Richard Wagner's 1845 opera Tannhauser, in which the titular character meets the Roman goddess of love (9) |
| DIANAINHOOSIERS | Basketball movie featuring the Roman goddess of hunting? |
