Answers to yesterday’s cryptic teaser

Here are the answers to yesterday’s cryptic teaser, taken from my book Ask Me Another. How did you get on? If you struggled at all, console yourself with the thought that it was my clues that we lacking, rather than your brain power of Bible knowledge!

  1. Methuselah
  2. Goliath
  3. Titus (tight us)
  4. Herod (other odious)
  5. Bathsheba
  6. Hannah (Hannah is a palindrome)
  7. Eli (anagram of lie)
  8. Eden (manicured English)
  9. Lot
  10. Ham 11.
  11. 2 Kings
  12. Legion
  13. Jude
  14. Mark 15.
  15. Cyrus (Cyprus minus ‘p’)