| WEPT | "Jesus ___" (Mavis Staples song based on the shortest verse in the Bible, in John 11) |
| SOLSTICE | Winter ___ (pagan holiday celebrated on the shortest day of the year) |
| MENDELSSOHN | 1910 is a geneticist ignored at first, as is John (11) |
| PINENUT | Producer of evergreen staple song retired |
| GABRIEL | Archangel who first appears in the Bible in the Book of Daniel (7) |
| ABEL | Franco Nero was he in The Bible: In the Beginning... |
| LEOVII | Pope after John XI |
| TWO | Number of words in the shortest verse in the Bible (John 11:35) |
| JESUS | The shortest verse in the King James Version of the Bible (5,4) |
| JESUSWEPT | The shortest verse in the King James Version of the Bible |
| AUTUMNLEAVES | Much-recorded popular song, based on the 1945 French song Les feuilles mortes, for which Johnny Mercer wrote English lyrics in 1947 |
| NEVER | Elvis song based on the Italian song O Sole mio. It's Now or _ |
| ALLBYMYSELF | 1975 Eric Carmen song based on the second movement of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor (3.2.6) |
| MYHAT | Song based on the Carnival of Venice; _ _, it Has Three Corners (2,3) |
| FOREVERAUTUMN | Song, based on a melody that was written as a jingle for a Lego commercial, sung by Justin Hayward on the album Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds |
| TREE | Christmas song based on the German O Tannenbaum, O Christmas _ (4) |
| ABRAHAM | Character played by George C. Scott in the 1966 John Huston film The Bible: In the Beginning (7) |
| JOHNHUSTON | Director of The Bible: In the Beginning... (also voiced God in the film). |
| RICKROLL | Song-based trick wherein the things the singer's "never gonna" do to you describe the theme answers, in order |
| RULEBRITANNIA | Patriotic song, based on a poem by James Thomson set to music by Thomas Arne in 1740 |
