| NABU | The Assyrian and Babylonian god of wisdom and writing |
| ASTARTE | Phoenician equivalent of the Assyrian and Babylonian goddess Ishtar |
| ISHTAR | Assyrian and Babylonian goddess identified with Astarte (6) |
| THOTH | Ibis-headed Egyptian god of wisdom and the arts, married to the goddess Maat (5) |
| ODIN | Norse god of wisdom and poetry (4) |
| GANESH | Hindu god of wisdom and success (6) |
| GANAPATI | Elephant-headed Hindu god of wisdom and prophecy (8) |
| BEL | Babylonian god of heaven and earth |
| ADAD | (Babylonian) God of storms and wind. |
| ANU | Babylonian god of the sky (3) |
| IBIS | Bird sacred to the ancient Egyptians because of their belief it was the embodiment of Thoth, god of wisdom, writing and knowledge (4) |
| NEBO | Babylonian god of agriculture |
| NISAN | The first month of spring in the Hebrew and Babylonian calendars (5) |
| AKELA | From the name of a wolf in stories by Rudyard Kipling, a symbol of wisdom and leadership in the Cubs division of the Scouting movement (5) |
| LAYARD | Whose excavations at Nimrud and Nineveh (1845-51) uncovered the Assyrian palace reliefs and the library of Ashurbanipal? (6) |
| ELEPHANT | Ganesha, the Hindu god of wisdom, has the head of this animal |
| PALLAS | She is the goddess of wisdom and of war, handicraft, and practical reason. The ancient Romans connected her with Minerva. In Titus Andronicus (act 4, scene 1), Marcus Andronicus says, "Apollo, ___, Jo |
| MINERVA | Roman goddess of wisdom and strategic warfare - and an old cultivar of the subject of this week's Miscellany! (7) |
| ASSYR | Ancient city state on the River Tigris that was the first or traditional capital of the Assyrian emp |
| THEWOLF | "The Assyrian came down like ___ ___ on the fold, and his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold": Lord Byron (3,4) |
