| HAMMURABI | King of Babylon who became the first king of the Babylonian Empire following the abdication of his father, Sin-Muballit |
| GEORGEVI | King following the abdication of his brother Edward VIII in 1936 (6,2) |
| PAINTROOM | Sounds like something Pope Julius said to Michelangelo in Sistine Chapel where Botticelli kept his f |
| IRAQ | Modern country which takes in what was the centre of the Babylonian empire (4) |
| NEBUCHADNEZZAR | King of Babylon who died c562BC (14) |
| FELIPE | Who became King of Spain in 2014 following the abdication of hhis father Juan Carlos? (6) |
| BELSHAZZAR | Biblical ruler who was the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire (10) |
| MARDUK | Chief god of ancient Babylon, who slew the dragons Tiamat and Kingu (6) |
| RUSSIAN | The abdication of Nicholas II on March 15, 1917, marked the end of this empire and its ruling Romanov dynasty. (7) |
| VASA | Royal house of Sweden from the accession of Gustav I in 1523 to the abdication of Christina in 1654 (4) |
| MALMESBURY | Wiltshire town whose abbey is the burial place of the first king of the whole of England |
| LEOPOLD | Name of the first king of the Belgians who reigned from 1831 to 1865 (7) |
| PSKOV | Russian city that was the scene of the abdication of Nicholas II (5) |
| SAUL | According to the Bible, who was the first king of the united kingdom of Israel? (4) |
| DIASPORA | Dispersion of a population from its homeland, as of the Jews after the Babylonian captivity of the 6th century BC (8) |
| ABEDNEGO | In the Book of Daniel, one of three men thrown into a fiery pit for refusing to bow to an image of the king of Babylon (8) |
| GIBEAH | Home of Saul, the first king of Israel, in the Old Testament |
| SAMUEL | Biblical character who presided over Saul's election as the first king of Israel (6) |
| NABONIDUS | Last king of Babylon before it fell to the Persian conqueror Cyrus The Great in 539 BC; father of Belshazzar (9) |
| EZRA | Old Testament book about a Jewish scribe and priest who was instrumental in restoring the Jewish scriptures and religion to the people after the return from the Babylonian Captivity |
