| HAMILCARBARCA | Carthaginian general and father of Hannibal |
| HAMILCAR | Carthaginian general and father of Hannibal (8,5) |
| BARCA | Carthaginian general and father of Hannibal (8,5) |
| HASDRUBAL | Carthaginian general and brother of Hannibal (9) |
| HANNIBAL | Carthaginian general and opponent of Rome (b.247 BC) (8) |
| FERDINAND | --- II of Aragon, husband of Isabella I of Castile and father of Catherine of Aragon (9) |
| JOHNGREENLEAFWHITTIER | US Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery who wrote Snow-Bound and the hymn Dear Lord and Father of Mankind (4,9,8) |
| GAUNT | John of ___, son of Edward III and father of Henry IV of Britain (5) |
| JOHNOFGAUNT | Founder of the royal House of Lancaster who was the son of Edward III and father of Henry IV (4,2,5) |
| ISAAC | Old Testament patriarch; son of Abraham and Sarah and father of Jacob and Esau (5) |
| DARNLEY | Second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, and father of James I of England |
| LOT | Brother-in-law of King Arthur, and father of Gawain and Mordred, according to Geoffrey of Monmouth (3) |
| LECTOR | Word, similar to the surname of "Hannibal the Cannibal", for a reader of liturgical lessons in a church or of academic discourses in university (6) |
| CHIANTI | Favorite drink of Hannibal in Hannibal Lecter |
| MARCELLUS | General Marcus Claudius , 270-208 BCE, opponent of Hannibal (9) |
| ENOCH | Son of Jared and father of Methuselah, who lived to the age of 365 (Genesis 5:18-23) (5) |
| GODWIN | William, author of The Adventures of Caleb Williams and father of Mary Shelley (6) |
| BYRON | Son of Captain John "Mad Jack" and father of Ada Lovelace who penned Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Don Juan and She Walks in Beauty (5) |
| CUPID | In Roman mythology, the husband of Psyche and father of Voluptas, goddess of sensual pleasure (5) |
| OLENUS | In Greek mythology, son of Hephaestus and father of Helike and Aex (6) |
