| ELAH | "In the Valley of ___": 2007 Tommy Lee Jones film |
| CARTER | Archaeologist whose excavations in the Valley of the Kings, financed by the 5th Earl of Carnarvon of Highclere Castle, led to said Egyptologist's discovery of the intact tomb of the boy-pharaoh Tutank |
| NO | "___ Country for Old Men"; 2007 Tommy Lee Jones film |
| OLD | No Country for ___ Men, 2007 Tommy Lee Jones film (3) |
| GREATBELZONI | In 1817, this collector of antiquities and explorer first set foot inside the tomb of Seti I in the Valley of the Kings, where he discovered Seti's sarcophagus. He was known by many epithets, but the |
| UMBRIA | Mountainous region of central Italy in the valley of the Tiber |
| HATSHEPSUT | Female Pharaoh of Egypt, entombed in the Valley of the Kings (10) |
| RIVERRAT | 1984 Tommy Lee Jones film set on the banks of the Mississippi, with "The" |
| ECHO | Part of pharaoh celebrations around what's heard again and again in the Valley of the Kings presumably (4) |
| TUTANKHAMEN | Egyptian pharaoh (14th century BC) whose virtually intact tomb was discovered in the Valley of the Kings in 1922 (11) |
| DISS | Norfolk town in the valley of the River Waveney close to the border with Suffolk |
| ASSAM | Indian tea state in the valley of the Brahmaputra River (5) |
| TUT | Boy with a tomb in the Valley of the Kings |
| LIEGE | City in the valley of the Meuse |
| ELTERWATER | Small lake, south of Grasmere, in the valley of Great Langdale (5,5) |
| AZTEC | Member of a Mexican people who established a great empire in the Valley of Mexico (5) |
| EZEKIEL | OT prophet whose vision in the Valley of Dry Bones inspired the song Dem Bones (7) |
| GOLIATH | Whom David slew in the Valley of Elah? (7) |
| ESTRADA | "The Three Burials of Melquiades ___" (2005 Tommy Lee Jones film) |
| STARK | Explorer who wrote about her exploits travelling uncharted Middle Eastern lands by camel, donkey and foot in The Valleys of the Assassins and other books (5) |