| ANAPAEST | A peasant involved in the destruction of Sennacherib? |
| ASSYRIAN | "The ........ came down like a wolf on the fold" in 18's The Destruction of Sennacherib (8) |
| NINEVEH | The oldest city of the ancient Assyrian empire and its capital during the reign of Sennacherib, later destroyed in 612BC |
| MERRY | The hobbit Meriadoc Brandybuck, who aided in the destruction of the Witch-king |
| PUNIC | Series of wars fought between Rome and Carthage from 264 BC to 146 BC, resulting in the destruction of Carthage (5) |
| LEVI | Simeon's accomplice in the destruction of Shechem |
| FOREMOST | Leading in the destruction of some fort (8) |
| LAMENTATIONS | Book of the Old Testament preceded by the Book of Jeremiah dealing with the destruction of Jerusalem (12) |
| NAHUM | Seventh of the 12 minor prophetic books of the Bible, concerning the destruction of Nineveh (5) |
| ARISTOCRAT | "Every marriage tends to consist of an ____ and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner" (John Updike) |
| DORITO | "We take it for granted today, but a single ___ has more extreme nacho flavor than a peasant in the 1400s would get in his whole lifetime" (viral tweet) |
| LASCASAS | "A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies" author Bartolome de ___ |
| RYOT | The sort of Tory that becomes a peasant in India (4) |
| MAGOG | Giant in folklore who, with Gog. survived the destruction of their race by Brutus. the legendary founder of Britain (5) |
| LOT | Son of Haran (Genesis 11:27) who fled to the town of Zoar to escape the destruction of Sodom (Genesis 19) (3) |
| DRILLRIG | Contraption used on an asteroid to make a hole for a nuke and prevent the destruction of Earth, in Armageddon |
| MICAH | Old Testament book telling of a prophet foretelling the destruction of Jerusalem |
| ISRAELS | Jozef -, painter of the Hague School whose works include A Peasant Family at the Table (7) |
| SERFDOM | System of bondage tying a peasant to the land (7) |
| RUSTICATE | Banish a peasant at the end from his place in college (9) |
