| STEPFOUR | "Make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves," in Alcoholics Anonymous |
| PROBE | Make a searching investigation (5) |
| COMBING | Searching and untangling (7) |
| QUEST | Whether a knight's crusade for the Grail, a pilgrim's progress to a holy place, a philosopher's pursuit of truth, a hound's hunt for game or a computer's scan for data, it is a word, from "ask, seek", |
| ATTILA | Abstainer, one left in Alcoholics Anonymous, becomes scourge of Europe (6) |
| ABRAHAM | Bad actor undermining little brother in Alcoholics Anonymous was a religious patriarch |
| SWINE | We sin in such a way as to make pigs of ourselves (5) |
| STEPS | Units of progress in Alcoholics Anonymous |
| ANAEMIA | Medical condition I mean to raise in Alcoholics Anonymous (7) |
| TIAMARIA | Liqueur? It is about to damage one in Alcoholics Anonymous |
| NAUSEA | Aversion is new treatment in Alcoholics Anonymous (6) |
| ANATHEMA | For the man involved in Alcoholics Anonymous, it's abhorrent (8) |
| BARBARA | Insult Republican in Alcoholics Anonymous (Bush's wife) (7) |
| ANGINA | New alcohol in Alcoholics Anonymous causes heart problem (6) |
| ABACUS | There are cubs in Alcoholics Anonymous - you can count on that! |
| OTHER | "Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the _ pothererson." (Mark Twain) (5) |
| TWELFELFTEPS | Program followed in Alcoholics Anonymous |
| APNOEA | Open cocktail in Alcoholics Anonymous causes gasps |
| MADAMEDEFARGE | '[S]trong and fearless' antagonist of Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, killed by Miss Pross (6,7) |
| OUST | Having to turn ourselves in and get rid of (4) |
