| INDEPENDENT | Free India from French writer's diatribe expressing no trust, for starters (11) |
| MAHATMAGANDHI | Leader of the 1940s movement to free India from British rule (7,6) |
| ALEXANDRE | Dread sex manual translated from French author (9,5) |
| HYGEIA | Limits to healthy GM-free India given by health icon (6) |
| DESCRIBE | Draw from French writer |
| NONCHALANT | No new song contains a line expressing no concern |
| RHEUM | No trust in truth serum as it's a watery fluid, in the literary sense (5) |
| IDENTITY | Name of one with no trust initially in God? |
| HORACE | Roman poet who wrote "Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!" |
| SOUNDINGBOARD | Person consulted expressing no interest, as some might say (8,5) |
| NOTAHOPE | Polite refusal by Bob, expressing no confidence in outcome (3,1,4) |
| WINDINSTRUMENTS | Twist in fickle men's trust for parts of orchestras (4,11) |
| ATONE | Pay the price, expressing no disagreement |
| SILAS | Fellow expressing no regrets to speak of |
| UHUH | Sound expressing "no" (2-2) |
| TRUSTEE | Someone who holds title in trust for benefit of another person (7) |
| ESCROW | Money held in trust for bird consequent to a couple of directions (6) |
| CANNA | Small island in the Inner Hebrides, left to the National Trust for Scotland in 1981 (5) |
| FIDUCIARY | One who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary (9) |
| MOTTO | "In God We Trust," for the United States |