| TOWEROFBABEL | Structure built by the descendants of Noah which was intended to reach to Heaven (5,2,5) |
| BABEL | Biblical tower intended to reach to heaven (5) |
| HAMITES | In Siam, the descendants of Noah |
| BALLOON | Toy that derives its name from an originally linen-and-paper structure built by the Montgolfier brothers for carrying passengers in a basket (7) |
| JACOBSLADDER | But the blooming thing didn't really reach to heaven! |
| SEMITES | Descendants of Noah |
| ROADS | Once traversed by Marius's Mules, straight structures built by the Romans (5) |
| NESTS | Structures built by the vertebrates studied by ornithologists (5) |
| LUCKYCOUNTRY | What phrase coined by Donald Horne, and used in the title of his 1964 book, was intended to be used |
| HEBREWS | The descendants of Abraham who were the addressees of some of the Epistles? |
| DAWESPLAN | The ____ of 1924 was intended to resolve the issue of Germany's First World War reparations |
| CALM | Keep ___ and Carry On; slogan used on a poster that was intended to raise the morale of the British |
| ORIGINALSIN | In Christian theology, the tendency to evil held to be innate in mankind as the descendants of Adam (8,3) |
| EPIGONI | In Greek mythology, the descendants of the Seven against Thebes, who eventually destroyed the city (7) |
| MIDIAN | Son of Abraham who was the descendant of an ancient desert people of northwest Arabia |
| LABYRINTH | Word for a maze in a landscaped garden or for something inextricably complicated that derives from the elaborate structure built by craftsman Daedalus to house the Minotaur (9) |
| LIGHTHOUSE | Structure built by Ptolemy I on the ancient island of Pharos |
| NEST | Structure built by a bird in the spring for a clutch of eggs (4) |
| ARABIA | Home of the descendants of Ishmael |
| SMILE | Beach Boys album that was intended to follow up Pet Sounds in 1967 (5) |