| CHAINMAIL | Armour written about in Malachi |
| ANGEL | Supernatural being whose name is 'malachi' in Hebrew (5) |
| PRECEDENT | What Zechariah and Malachi do, for example |
| LATTERPROPHETS | Old Testament books from Isaiah to Malachi |
| ALLOT | Give out everything, Genesis to Malachi initially |
| MICAH | Book Malachi reviewed the Parisian left (5) |
| LEVI | Tribe of Israel with the notable descendants Samuel, Ezekiel and Malachi (4) |
| SCOTT | Author of the Waverley novels who lived at Abbotsford, saved a banknote from extinction with his Malachi Malagrowther campaign and popularised tartan (5) |
| MINORPROPHET | Sounds like an insignificant gain for Malachi, maybe (5,7) |
| ESAU | Yet I loved Jacob And I hated ___ (Malachi 1:2-3) |
| EPISTLE | Foreign character in steel, written about in letter (7) |
| OCTET | Eight in play, and the others written about in books (5) |
| AGRICOLA | Roman general written about in a book by his son-in-law Tacitus (8) |
| RACEHORSE | Written about in novels by Dick Francis, general word for an animal ridden in an event such as the National Hunt's Cheltenham Gold Cup (9) |
| UCCELLO | Artist written about in Giorgio Vasari's The Lives who painted Saint George and the Dragon and The Hunt in the Forest (7) |
| ARGO | Mythical vessel written about in bibliography (4) |
| SHINIEST | Extremely polished attempts written about in time (8) |
| ELF | Small creature written about in Beowulf legend (3) |
| FEATURES | Achievement sure to be written about in newspapers (8) |
| IDYLL | Bucolic scene written about in hillbilly diaries |
