| THEJESUS | Article on revered son with Virgin group of stores making 5Dn - w 21dn 7dn (3,5,3,4,5) |
| CHAIN | Article on revered son with Virgin group of stores making 5Dn - see 12ac (3,5,3,4,5) |
| ANDMARY | Article on revered son with Virgin group of stores making 5Dn - see 12ac (3,5,3,4,5) |
| GATWA | West involved in actuating Scottish 5Dn - w 21dn (5,5) |
| IDOLATRY | Excessive devotion responsible for an attempt on revered figure (8) |
| THEWAKE | Appropriate to swallow chop making 5Dn (3,4) |
| WINE | Booze store making Methuselah's head spin |
| HORNY | Beginning of history, reviewing chronology taking in first sign of life as 11Dn - w 21dn (5,7) |
| RESISTOR | Group of stores is to retail electrical component (8) |
| STRIPMALL | Long group of stores |
| CHAI | Group of stores mostly offering tea (4) |
| BRANSON | Virgin Group founder who launched his career in 1968 with Student magazine (7) |
| TAXES | Mowing makes demands on 1Ac's plans - w 21dn (7,5) |
| WASHINGTON | President with virgin material for man of letters from America (10,6) |
| CAMERA | Mobile feature of mesoamerican 5Dn - w 24dn (5,6) |
| AZTEC | Mobile feature of mesoamerican 5Dn - w 28ac (5,6) |
| RICHARDBRANSON | Founder of the Virgin Group (7,7) |
| AGENT | Top US investigator amazingly indefatigable without information source - w 21dn (4,3,5) |
| ALOT | Chewed oatmeal mixture, yet finally was a committed carnivore - w 21dn (3,4,1,3) |
| MCCOY | Most cycles very jolting for Scottish 5Dn - w 16dn (9,5) |
