| JOSHW | "Ballad of John Henry" folk singer |
| APOLOGIA | Latin term for a formal defence of one's position, such as that of John Henry Newman in 1864 (8) |
| CARDINALVIRTUES | Chief moral qualities of John Henry Newman? |
| FOLKTALE | The story of John Henry, e.g. |
| TALLTALE | Account of John Henry or Pecos Bill, e.g. |
| YOKO | 'The Ballad of John and ___' |
| SEINE | French river mentioned in "The Ballad of John and Yoko" |
| OLD | "___ Brown Shoe" ("The Ballad of John and Yoko" B-side) |
| SHOE | Beatles B-side to The Ballad of John and Yoko, Old Brown ---- (4) |
| LLY | "Fin'___ made the plane into Paris..." - The Beatles, "The Ballad of John and Yoko" |
| NEWMAN | John Henry ___, 19th-century theologian; one of the founders of the Oxford Movement (6) |
| PUSEY | Edward Bouverie ___, English Christian theologian and leader of the 19th-century Oxford Movement alongside John Henry Newman and John Keble (5) |
| KINGSLEY | Priestly polymath who was a champion of "muscular Christianity", a chaplain to Queen Victoria and also John Henry Newman's theological foe, but is perhaps best known as the author of The Water-Babies |
| LOOPHOLES | John Henry, captured by Europeans, has means of escape (9) |
| DOC | Nickname of US Wild West lawman John Henry Holliday |
| DENTIST | Profession of frontiersman John Henry Holliday |
| GERONTIUS | The Dream of ___, 1900 choral work by Edward Elgar based on a poem by John Henry Newman (9) |
| DREAM | The - of Gerontius ; Sir Edward Elgar's oratorio based on a poem by John Henry Newman (5) |
| IRVING | Sir Henry ___, English actor manager whose real name was John Henry Brodribb |
| PATTERN | Decorative design such as any one of those created by Walter Crane, John Henry Dearle, Sidney Mawson, William Morris or Charles Voysey; or, a paper template for dressmaking (7) |