| MIRACLES | Events that are contrary to the established laws of nature and attributed to a supernatural cause (8) |
| UP | 2009 Pixar film whose opening minutes are, contrary to its title, quite a downer |
| OPPOSITES | They attract, they say, those that are contrary (9) |
| HERETIC | A person who maintains beliefs contrary to the established teachings of a particular religion (7) |
| INVERSE | How poet writes, contrary to the established order (7) |
| CREDITED | Mentioned half of redact is in and attributed (8) |
| REASSIGNED | Allotted once more and attributed again |
| CURSE | An appeal to a supernatural power for harm to come to a specific person or group (5) |
| AMOS | Third of the twelve minor prophetic books of the Old Testament, attributed to 'a shepherd from the town of Tekoa' (4) |
| MIRACLE | Event contrary to the laws of nature (7) |
| MALACHI | Book Of ---, part of the Old Testament attributed to a Hebrew prophet of the 5th Century BC (7) |
| LEGISLATED | Established laws DOWN "THE OLDER YOU GET, THE BETTER YOU GET, UNLESS YOU ARE A BANANA." BETTY WHITE |
| CYBELE | A flora or botanical treatise that takes its name from a mother goddess of nature and fertility (6) |
| BARREL | A cask made by a cooper; a similar keg in miniature whose customary suspension from a St Bernard's collar is attributed to a painting by Sir Edwin Landseer; or, a horse's belly (6) |
| OBADIAH | Shortest book of the Old Testament, attributed to a Hebrew prophet of either the 6th or 9th century BC (7) |
| CYCLE | A series of events that are regularly repeated in the same order (5) |
| REBEL | Dissent / a person who fights against, resists, refuses allegiance to the established government |
| SPEEDOFLIGHT | A fundamental constant of nature and physics defined by the vacuum propagation rate of electromagnetic radiation, exactly 299,792,458 metres per second (5,2,5) |
| ASSIST | This is attributed to a basketball player whose pass leads a teammate to score a basket. (6) |
| EPISODEI | Events that are part of a larger sequence (8) |
