| WATERSHIPDOWN | Adventure novel about the destruction of a warren |
| GESTE | Adventure novel about the Foreign Legion, by P.C. Wren, published in 1924 (4,5) |
| BEAU | Adventure novel about the Foreign Legion, by P.C. Wren, published in 1924 (4,5) |
| HEAVINGCANWAIT | Mad spoof of a Warren Beatty film? |
| IBUYEXPENSIVE | Start of a Warren Buffett quip |
| MOODS | Different feelings about the destruction of Sodom |
| DIDIN | Brought about the destruction of |
| NEONAZI | One who would have a bearing on the destruction of a Zion? (3,4) |
| GENEVA | Avenge the destruction of a city (6) |
| RANSOME | Author of a series of adventure novels about characters including the Amazons, the Coots, the Hullabaloos and the Swallows |
| 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) |
| LASCASAS | "A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies" author Bartolome de ___ |
| ASSYRIAN | "The ........ came down like a wolf on the fold" in 18's The Destruction of Sennacherib (8) |
| LOT | Son of Haran (Genesis 11:27) who fled to the town of Zoar to escape the destruction of Sodom (Genesis 19) (3) |
| MICAH | Old Testament book telling of a prophet foretelling the destruction of Jerusalem |
| LAMENTATIONSOFJEREMIAH | Old Testament book of poems grieving for the destruction of Jerusalem by a Babylonian army |
| MERRY | The hobbit Meriadoc Brandybuck, who aided in the destruction of the Witch-king |
| MAGOG | Giant in folklore who, with Gog. survived the destruction of their race by Brutus. the legendary founder of Britain (5) |
| RACK | The destruction of the shelving (4) |
