Words
This 9-letter word for an insect may have come about because people believed it ate uncovered dairy products.
Butterfly
A little cold/ A hot food with meat and beans
chilly/ chili
Swallowed by a great fish after fleeing toward Tarshish instead of preaching repentance to Nineveh, this reluctant prophet spent three days and nights in its belly.
Jonah
a thick baseball stick (1)
fat bat
Guarding the gates of the Underworld to prevent the dead from leaving, this fearsome multi-headed hound was captured by Heracles as his twelfth and final labour.
Cerberus
Though it means "seasickness" in Latin, this six-letter word now refers to a more general feeling of illness.
Nausea
A musical group/ prohibited
band/ banned
The judge of legendary physical strength lost his power after confiding the secret of his uncut hair to this Philistine woman who betrayed him.
Delilah
A stage play about a wooly South American pack animal (2)
llama drama
An 1888 book by D.R. McAnally called these mythical creatures "a mischief maker, the Puck of the Emerald Isle".
Leprechaun
This Sanskrit word, referring to a spoken word or phrase, comes from the word "to think."
Mantra
Smelly/ out of bounds/ related to birds
foul/ fowl
Testing his army at the water's edge to see who lapped like dogs, this judge routed the vast Midianite host using only 300 men armed with trumpets, jars, and torches.
Gideon
Almost every 365 days (2)
Nearly Yearly
In Norse mythology, the cosmic ash tree that connects the nine realms, including Asgard, Midgard, and Helheim, is known by this nine-letter name.
Yggdrasil
From the Greek word for ring, the first ones were built by the Romans, including one that could hold 250,000 people.
Circus
Opposite of lower/ opposite of fire
higher/ hire
Walking with God rather than seeing death, this great-grandfather of Noah was translated straight to heaven at the age of 365.
Enoch
A massive mold or mushroom (3) (2)
humongous fungus
In Egyptian myth, during the weighing of the heart ceremony against the feather of Ma'at, the souls of the unworthy were devoured by this part-lion, part-hippo, part-crocodile demon.
Ammit (or Ammut)
P.T. Barnum, whose travelling show carried musicians, coined this term that now represents something growing in popularity.
Bandwagon
To refer to/ a vision/ a place to build
cite/ sight/ site
Only two books in the Protestant canon of the Old Testament do not explicitly mention the name of God: Esther is one, and this poetic, eight-chapter work celebrated for its romantic allegory is the other.
Song of Solomon (or Song of Songs)
A magazine story about a proton or a neutron (3)
particle article
In Egyptian myth, after he was murdered by his brother Set, he was brought back to life to be ruler of the Underworld.
Osiris