| SIVA | The destroyer, one of the three chief divinities of the later Hindu pantheon |
| KALI | One of the Hindu pantheon |
| SHIVA | Divinity of the Hindu pantheon (5) |
| DEVI | Goddess in the Hindu pantheon |
| AGNI | Hindu god of fire; one of the three chief deities of the Vedas (4) |
| VISHNU | In Hinduism, one of the three chief gods, the second member of the Trimurti (6) |
| TRIMURTI | Trinity comprising the three chief gods of Hinduism (Brahma, Vishnu and Siva) (8) |
| DESERT | Leave one of the later courses, by the sound of it (6) |
| 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 |
| NEOLITHIC | Of the later part of the Stone Age (9) |
| PETER | Name of three Chief Mousers to the Cabinet Office, 1929-64 |
| PERON | The new president of Argentina on June 4, 1946, was General Juan ..., husband of the later famous Ev |
| KIRSTIE | ___ Alley, star of the later seasons of Cheers (7) |
| MOONLIGHTFLIT | Sonata, perhaps, large in sound - one of the later movements? |
| RAMSES | Name of 11 Egyptian pharaohs of the later New Kingdom period (6) |
| YEGODS | Words to invoke the old divinities in the theatre? (2,4) |
| ERNIE | Some of the later nieces of Mr Dingo |
| MALM | Soft crumbly grey limestone of the later Jurassic period, named after the Old Norse for ore or sand (4) |
| NEOLITH | An artefact of the later or more advanced Stone Age (7) |
| ALEPPO | Third-largest city of the later Ottoman Empire, surpassed only by Constantinople and Cairo |
