| SETAGOODEXAMPLE | Be a wholesome role model, like saints or older siblings (3,1,4,7) |
| BALANCETHEBOOKS | What accountants do to achieve a model-like deportment (7,3,5) |
| SEPTEMBERPEOPLE | Informal euphemism for those of late middleage or older (9,6) |
| CANON | Rule in ecclesiastical matters; a principle applied in a branch of learning such as philosophy or art; a list of saints; or, the works of any author accepted as genuine (5) |
| AUREOLA | In art, a golden or luminous cloud represented encircling the body or head of a saint or other sacred personage; or, a halo around the sun or moon (7) |
| IMAGE | I'm a good example, at first, of a model, like image (5) |
| HAGIOGRAPHY | Writing of the lives of saints, or a volume thus produced (11) |
| SITTING | An easy target, being a model like this (7) |
| CONCEPT | _ car, a one-off model like the Lotus Etna (7) |
| TWIGGY | Was this famous 1960s model like a tree, so to speak? (6) |
| LIMITED | _ edition, a special model like the MG Maestro Turbo (7) |
| AGE | 30 or older for a US senator |
| HONESTLY | Like saints guarding home, I assure you! |
| BOSSY | Like older siblings, at times |
| PESTERED | Like older siblings, sometimes |
| TISANE | A wholesome or medicinal drink (6) |
| BOYNEXTDOOR | *Description of a wholesome, clean-cut guy |
| SADNESS | On reflection finish with When The Saints or the blues? |
| WAIF | Very thin fashion model, like Kate Moss |
| FLAGSHIP | Top of the range model like the Mercedes-Benz 600 (8) |
