| ASSYRIANS | Descendants of ancient Mesopotamians |
| SEAL | Cylinder -; any one of a number of stamps carved in intaglio by the ancient Mesopotamians to make impressions on clay tablets (4) |
| SUMERREPORTS | News accounts of some ancient Mesopotamians? |
| COPT | Christian descendant of ancient Egyptians |
| COPATRIOT | A threesome fixed by descendant of ancient Egyptian countryman (9) |
| FIGS | Once prized by the Mesopotamians, fruits or syconiums of a tree related to the banyan and mulberry which may be eaten dried, raw, baked or grilled (4) |
| WAX | The ancient Greeks and Romans innovated on what the Mesopotamians accomplished by replacing clay with this soft substance. |
| ANU | Mesopotamians' supreme deity |
| CLAY | Used by the Mesopotamians to make tablets for cuneiform, a fine-grained earth that is the main ingredient for all ceramics (4) |
| SEMITE | A member of any of the peoples supposed to be descendants of Shem, son of Noah (old testament), i.e. Jews, Arabs, Assyrians, Phoenicians |
| HEBREWS | The descendants of Abraham who were the addressees of some of the Epistles? |
| MOAB | Ancient kingdom east of the Dead Sea in what is now southern Jordan, said to have been founded by descendants of the Biblical Lot (4) |
| BURMESE | Breed of domestic cat, most of which are descendants of a female cat called Wong Mau (7) |
| SEMITES | Descendants of a son of Noah |
| ARABIA | Home of the descendants of Ishmael |
| ITALIANS | Descendants of the ancient Etruscans (8) |
| LEVITES | Descendants of a son of Jacob and Leah |
| ISRAEL | Children of ___ (descendants of Jacob) |
| BOERS | Descendants of the Dutch settlers of southern Africa |
| COPTS | Christian descendants of the ancient Egyptians (5) |
