| MISHNAH | First major written collection of the oral tradition of Jewish law |
| AESOP | Moralist of the oral tradition |
| BRER | Trickster character in the African-American oral tradition of the Southern USA, _ Rabbit (4) |
| AVESTAN | Ancient liturgical language of Zoroastrianism, derived from the name of the written collection of its texts (7) |
| ALLEGRO | Quickly giving support in the setting of the oral (7) |
| KARAITE | Member of a Jewish religious group rejecting oral tradition as a source of divine law (7) |
| KLIPPEL | Which sculptor, whose later works include Wooden Prototype for Adelaide Plaza (1988), part of the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, began his sculpture career making models of military |
| SITWELL | The poems set to music in William Walton's Facade were from a collection of the same name by Edith ____ |
| MAXILLA | (GKN) Anatomy Central bone of the face, by which the oral and nasal cavities are separated (7) |
| EFFENDI | In Turkey, the oral title of address equivalent to Mr. (7) |
| CHAUCER | Author whose poem The Parliament of Fowls is said to have contributed towards the tradition of Valentine's Day (7) |
| ASCRIBE | Attribute to teacher of Jewish law (7) |
| COOKING | The culinary art, practice, skill or tradition of baking, boiling, casseroling, concocting, flambeing, poaching, pureeing, roasting, sauteing etc; or, the food prepared in such a way (7) |
| ALBERTS | Watch chains named after Queen Victoria's consort who popularised the tradition of Christmas trees in Britain (7) |
| GURKHAS | Recruited by the British Army, these Nepalese Hindu soldiers have a long tradition of courage and endurance |
| LORELEI | Tradition of garland she used to lure sailors to their doom |
| ATLAS | Collection of the charts studied in cartography; one of the mythological Greek Titans; or, the name of a chain of mountains extending through Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia (5) |
| TONSIL | Either of two small oval masses of lymphatic tissue one on each side of the oral pharynx (6) |
| SHANGO | He is a major deity of the religion of the Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria. This is both a deified ancestor and a natural force. Oral tradition describes him as powerful, with a voice like thunder and |
| SABIN | Albert, Bialystok-born developer of the oral polio vaccine (5) |
