| VESTA | Roman goddess whose temple housed a fire kept constantly burning by her priestesses |
| VADEMECUM | A handbook or guide kept constantly at hand for consultation (4,5) |
| TINDER | Stuff that could start fire kept in derelict stores |
| POTASH | Burning by-product |
| LUNA | Goddess whose temple on Palatine Hill glowed at night |
| PROSERPINA | Ancient Roman goddess whose story is the basis of a myth of springtime |
| JUNO | Roman goddess whose Greek equivalent was Hera (4) |
| VESTALS | Roman priestesses who took care of a sacred fire |
| VESTALVIRGIN | In ancient Rome, one of the priestesses whose lives were dedicated to Vesta, goddess of the hearth (6,6) |
| VESTAL | In ancient Rome, one of the priestesses whose lives were dedicated to the goddess of the hearth, _ Virgin (6) |
| VESTALVIRGINS | Priestesses who kept alight an eternal flame in Ancient Rome (6,7) |
| BELSEN | Village in Germany which housed a notorious World War II concentration camp (6) |
| FANTOMEISLAND | It once housed a leper colony off Queensland (7,6) |
| TARDIS | Time and relative dimension in space initially housed a doctor (6) |
| ALCATRAZ | Island in San Francisco Bay that housed a federal prison until 1963 (8) |
| CHATHAM | Town in Kent on the River Medway that formerly housed a Royal Navy Dockyard (7) |
| VENUS | Celebrated in her earliest form as a spirit of kitchen gardens, a Roman love goddess whose name was given to the planet also known as Hesperus or the morning star (5) |
| IRIS | A species of crystal, also called rainbow quartz; a messenger goddess whose sign was a rainbow; something prismatic, like said arc-en-ciel; or, a flower with purple or yellow petals known as falls, ru |
| GARAGED | Housed a car |
| ORANGEBOWL | *Stadium that once housed a live dolphin |
