| HEP | "In the old grooveroo" |
| TABERNACLE | The portable sanctuary in the form of a tent in which the ancient Israelites carried the Ark of the Covenant in the Old Testament |
| NAOMI | The mother-in-law of Ruth whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament. |
| LILAC | Shrub in the olive family with fragrant blooms in May, mentioned in The Old Vicarage, Grantchester b |
| ABRAHAM | The father of Isaac and founder of the Hebrew people in the Old Testament (7) |
| GOMORRAH | Town in ancient Palestine destroyed with Sodom in the Old Testament for the wickedness of its inhabi |
| COURTHOUSE | You"ll be in the way in the Old Bailey, perhaps (10) |
| FOREIGNMARKET | For the exporters, where's the beef in the old Europe? (7,6) |
| OTHELLO | The litres consumed in rounds in the Old Black Ram! |
| PRUSSIA | American in Paris remade in the old country |
| MARLIN | Fish in "The Old Man and the Sea" |
| FRONTIERJUSTICE | Law of the jungle, in the Old West |
| HOTWATER | In which punishment is likely (held by copper in the old days) (3,5) |
| OVERT | It's obvious the minister was brought up in the Old Testament (5) |
| HOWARDSWAY | How difficult without aspiration to rule (the Tories?) in the old TV serial (7,3) |
| AFINE | I face disaster without that famous fidd-ler fellow in the old song where there's no 11 without the |
| ISAAC | The father of Jacob and Esau in the Old Testament (5) |
| GIBEAH | Home of Saul, the first king of Israel, in the Old Testament (6) |
| BILDAD | In the Old Testament, the Shuhite, one of Job's three friends who visited him (6) |
| OCTET | Group of eight, and the rest turned up in the Old Testament |
