| TOBIT | Pious Israelite of the tribe of Naphtali whose story is told in a book of the Apocrypha (5) |
| ASHER | "Naphtali and Issachar with ___ and Dan / Zebulun and Gad took the total to nine" (Jacob and Sons from Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat) |
| SAMSON | Ancient Israelite of immense strength? (6) |
| NAOMI | Who is the mother-in-law of Ruth, whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament? (5) |
| PSALM | Which kind of sacred song is one of many in a book of the Bible? (5) |
| COHAN | George M, US actor whose story is told in the film Yankee Doodle Dandy (5) |
| HELEN | U.S. author whose story is told in 1962 film The Miracle Worker (5,6) |
| ATLAS | Heaven-shouldering god traditionally figured in a book of maps, hence the tome of charts itself; or, a telamon, as a supporting column (5) |
| AUDIE | Mr. Murphy, actor whose story is told in 1955 film To Hell and Back (5) |
| URIEL | Archangel of the Apocrypha described in Milton's Paradise Lost as 'Regent of the Sun' (5) |
| CALEB | Biblical representative of the Tribe of Judah (5) |
| BRICE | Fanny, tragi-comedienne whose story is told in 1968 film Funny Girl (5) |
| PLATE | Picture in a book of a racing horseshoe (5) |
| ICENI | The tribe of Ancient Britain led by Boadicea (5) |
| LENTO | Instruction in a book of Liszt's |
| ETUDE | Entry in a book of Liszt's |
| ACTUP | Misbehave putting tea, we're told, in a mug (3,2) |
| KRISHNA | In Hinduism, the most celebrated of the deities whose story is told in the Mahabharata (7) |
| REUBEN | In the Old Testament, a son of Jacob and forefather of one of the tribes of Israel (6) |
| HYPATIA | Greek philosopher whose story is told in a novel by Charles Kingsley (7) |
