| FATTED | Like the Biblical calf |
| GADARENE | Rushing headlong, like the Biblical swine |
| PRODIGAL | Like the biblical son who wasted his fortune |
| GIDEON | The pitcher and torch logo on a ____ bible symbolises implements used by the biblical judge of the same name to scare the Midianite army |
| EDOMITES | Descendants of the biblical Esau who lived south of the Dead Sea around the 13th century BC; later known as the Idumaeans (8) |
| GOODWILL | As two words, a phrase from the Biblical annunciation to the shepherds in the Nativity for amity, kindness or well-wishing; or, as one word in the US, a thrift shop (4,4) |
| BETHLEHEM | The West Bank Barrier runs along the north of this Palestinian city which was the Biblical birthplac |
| TARSUS | The American followed the sailors to the biblical city of Turkey (6) |
| ABADDON | Hebrew name of the biblical angel of the bottomless pit in the Book of Revelation |
| FIGLEAF | The biblical cover-up has the loud soldier turning back the page! (3,4) |
| EVE | Literary word for nightfall; the day or night before a notable occasion or festival, such as Christmas Day; or, the biblical first woman recalled in the name of an apple pudding (3) |
| NOAH | The builder of the Biblical arlt during the great flood? |
| SHEM | The biblical character of the British Empire (4) |
| AARON | The Biblical man with the rod? |
| DEADSEA | Written before AD 100, the Biblical documents found in caves near Qumran are known as the ... Scroll |
| MAGI | The -; the Biblical kings Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar collectively (4) |
| HEROD | The biblical king who is said to have ordered the execution of all baby boys (5) |
| LOCUSTS | The Biblical eighth Plague of Egypt, as described in the Old Testament |
| ISRAELITE | One of the ancient people directly descended from the Biblical patriarch Jacob |
| NAZARETH | Ancient town that was the Biblical home of Joseph, Mary and the young Jesus |
