| NAHASH | King of Ammon, mentioned in the Books of Samuel, who was killed by Saul |
| ELI | High priest and judge of Israel whose story is told in the books of Samuel, etc. (3) |
| IDDO | Biblical prophet mentioned in the Books of Chronicles as making prophecies about King Jeroboam I (4) |
| MITE | Low-valued coin mentioned in the Books of Mark and Luke (4) |
| GOMPERS | Samuel who was the first president of the American Federation of Labor, 1886-94 |
| ALITO | Samuel who was appointed to the Supreme Court in 2006 |
| INSECT | Described in the books of Jean- Henri Fabre, any one of the more than one million species of arthropods whose development was influenced by the evolution of flowering plants (6) |
| FERMOR | Last name of the travel writer who recounted his journey by foot from the Hook of Holland to Istanbul aged 18 in the books A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water (6) |
| ORPAH | The daughter-in-law of Naomi and wife of Chilion, mentioned in the Book of Ruth |
| ADONIJAH | The fourth son of King David according to the book of Samuel |
| WOOLLEY | Ur, an ancient city-state situated between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers, is mentioned in the Book of Genesis, but it remained unidentified until the mid-19th century. In 1922, this archaeologis |
| GIHON | Second river mentioned in the Book of Genesis, one of four flowing from the Garden of Eden (5) |
| URIM | ___ and Thummim, objects used as oracles mentioned in the Book of Exodus in the Old Testament (4) |
| ETAM | The name of a rock mentioned in the book of Judges (4) |
| TABITHATWITCHIT | Cat featured in the books of Beatrix Potter (7,8) |
| DAVIDANDGOLIATH | Biblical legend in the Book of Samuel (5,3,7) |
| EWELAMB | In the Book of Samuel, symbolically a poor man's only possession, or one's dearest possession |
| ARIADNE | ___ Oliver, fictional crime novelist in the books of Agatha Christie (7) |
| MORSE | Samuel who is the subject of the 1943 book "The American Leonardo" |
| ENDOR | The witch of ... was an Old Testament sorceress visited by Saul in 1 Samuel 28 (5) |
