Two books of family genealogies with only the covers remaining (5)
I believe the answer is:
kings
'two books' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both man-made objects as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'family genealogies with only the covers remaining' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'family' could be 'kin' (synonyms) and 'kin' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'of' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for kings that I've seen before include "Leaders" , "Monarchs" , "Men promoted" , "Name of two Old Testament books" , "Either of two OT books" .)