| OFFA | King who had a ditch constructed to separate his kingdom of Mercia from the lands of Powys (4) |
| MIDAS | King who had a golden touch |
| LEAR | Shakespearean ruler who divides his kingdom between two of his daughters |
| SCOT | One from the Land of Cakes |
| COLE | Rhyme king who had three fiddlers |
| JEHU | Biblical king who had Jezebel slain |
| FAHD | Saudi king who had twelve ex-wives |
| VIII | Henry ___ (king who had six wives) |
| MILO | Traveler through the Lands Beyond, in "The Phantom Tollbooth" |
| ACTI | When Lear divides his kingdom |
| HADES | This underworld god is a personification of death whose realm, divided from the land of the living by a terrible river, resembles the Mesopotamian land of the dead. |
| CADASTER | A public register of the lands of a country for fiscal purposes (alt sp) (8) |
| LEWIS | Meriwether, US explorer who, with Clark, led an expedition to explore the lands to the west of the Mississippi in the early 19c (5) |
| ATHELSTAN | 10th-century king of Wessex and Mercia who extended his kingdom to include most of England |
| CRONUS | After this Greek god was overthrown by his sons, his kingdom was divided among them, and the underworld fell by lot to Hades. He was the son of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaia (Earth). Who is this? |
| CHRISTIANIA | Name by which Oslo was known from 1624 to 1877 in honour of the king who had it rebuilt (11) |
| TAMWORTH | Market town in Southeast Staffordshire, capital of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Mercia (8) |
| HOBBIT | Tolkien's inhabitant of the lands of Middle-earth (6) |
| SEIGNEURS | Lords of the lands of New France in early Canadian history |
| CANUTE | The king who had no power to control the tides |
