| DIPPER | Nickname for a Baptist; metal cup clipped onto a painter's palette for holding medium; or, a water ouzel (6) |
| ALABAMA | A priest held a Baptist's head in a southern river (7) |
| CHARGER | Holds the head of a Baptist on the end of a phone (7) |
| HERODIAS | Jewish princess who asked for the head of John the Baptist as a reward for her daughter Salome's dancing |
| SALOME | In the Bible, who is given the head of John the Baptist as a reward for her dancing? (6) |
| AGNUSDEI | Liturgy that takes its name from a term for Jesus used by John the Baptist |
| BETHEL | Methodist or Baptist church; church for seamen (6) |
| JOHNSON | Baptist hymn abridged for US presidents |
| DUNKARD | A member of the German Baptist Brethren (7) |
| CAMELSHAIR | Clothing material for John the Baptist |
| BEGS | Prays, for example, in Baptist synagogue initially (4) |
| PASTOR | Martin Luther King, Jr., for Dexter Avenue Baptist Church |
| EPICURE | Record one priest as anything but a John the Baptist type? (7) |
| HERODANTIPAS | 1st Century ruler of Galilee and Perea, known for his purported role in the executions of John the Baptist and Jesus (5,7) |
| HEROD | --- Antipas, 1st-Century ruler of Galilee and Perea, known for his purported role in the executions of John the Baptist and Jesus (5) |
| GAS | Word, coined by Jan Baptist van Helmont, from "chaos", for the third state of matter, after liquid and solid (3) |
| LEONARDODAVINCI | "St. John the Baptist" painter |
| CRAMER | German composer Johann Baptist |
| DIET | Locusts and wild honey, to John the Baptist |
| ELIZABETH | Mother of John the Baptist |
