| PANTHEISTS | Bank job, perhaps, held by very poor religious folk |
| PENPAL | Power held by very severe overseas correspondent |
| LOUIS | I may be taken in by very poor clipped old coin |
| SLUM | An overcrowded urban district usually inhabited by very poor people (4) |
| TRAINOF | Sequence of ideas perhaps held by rail passengers? (5,2,7) |
| THOUGHT | Sequence of ideas perhaps held by rail passengers? (5,2,7) |
| MONOLITH | Large stone lion, perhaps, held by little flier (8) |
| PROVERB | Saying name 01 dog perhaps held by lead (7) |
| ISLE | Man perhaps held back by travel sickness |
| MAFIOSO | Soprano perhaps held up by virtuoso, if ambitious (7) |
| POET | Frost, perhaps, held back by inappropriate operation (4) |
| ECCLES | Area of Greater Manchester suitable for religious folk in brief |
| ADVENTISTS | Religious folk test divans in an odd way (10) |
| ZADDIKIM | Maiden I deceive to shock mostly upstanding, ultra-religious folk |
| LUTHERANS | Religious folk learn thus, after conversion (9) |
| DISORDER | Hell, with a group of religious folk creating chaos (8) |
| FRIARY | Religious folk here get heated when the atmosphere rises inside (6) |
| FAMISHED | Starving? Provided nourishment to grasping religious folk (8) |
| APOSTLES | Religious folk from America dancing topless (8) |
| OPENLY | Jerks perhaps held in solitary with no holds barred (6) |
