| BOOKII | "The Testaments" in an Atwood series |
| ATWOOD | Writer who finally followed up "The Handmaid's Tale" with "The Testaments" in 2019 |
| MARGARETATWOOD | Author of the dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale and its sequel The Testaments: 2 wds. |
| MARGARET | & 18D Which Canadian author wrote The Handmaid's Tale and its followup The Testaments, a Booker Prize winner? (8,6) |
| BIBLICAL | Relating to the Testaments (8) |
| OLD | Like one of the Testaments |
| AUNT | ___ Lydia ("The Testaments" narrator) |
| STATE | Says half the testaments are falsified (5) |
| APOCRYPHA | The 14 books included as an appendix to the Old Testament in the vulgate version of the Bible (9) |
| REVELATION | The Book Of --- is the last book of the New Testament in the Bible (10) |
| TOTAL | The whole of the Old Testament in endless narration (5) |
| BRIDGES | Awarded an Order of Merit for The Testament of Beauty and services to literature, a doctor who held the position of poet laureate from 1913 until his death in 1930 (7) |
| ERASMUS | Desiderius ___, Dutch humanist who published the first Greek edition of the New Testament in 1516 (7 |
| IMPOTENT | Weak figure entering testament in support of the devil (8) |
| ILLWILL | Malice stemming from the testament of the sick? (3,4) |
| MOAB | Ancient city appearing throughout the Old Testament, in modern-day Jordan (4) |
| ADAM | (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology. |
| YESHIVOTH | Stick Old Testament in non-standard agreement for faith schools |
| DISMANTLE | Demolish testament in dreadful tirade, ultimately (9) |
| QUENTINCRISP | European enquiry given testament in sharp, English wit (7,5) |
