| MARTINLUTHER | German leader of the Protestant Reformation excommunicated and outlawed by the Diet of Worms in 1521 |
| LOB | Briefly, a type of worm ... in pool, obviously (3) |
| VERMICELLI | Italian production for the Diet of Worms? (10) |
| HERESY | Luther's crime, per the Diet of Worms |
| STEALING | Activity outlawed by the eighth of the Ten Commandments (8) |
| KILT | Highland garment outlawed by the Disclothing Act of 1746 |
| IDOLATRY | Moves adroitly, with devotion outlawed by the Second Commandment (8) |
| LUTHERAN | A follower of the German leader of the Protestant Reformation (8) |
| LUTHERANS | Followers of the German leader of the Protestant Reformation (9) |
| LUTHER | Martin, German leader of the Protestant Reformation who died in 1546 (6) |
| CALVIN | John ---, 16th-Century French leader of the Protestant Reformation in France and Switzerland (6) |
| EARLYBIRD | In the proverb, it catches the worm (in the joke, the second mouse gets the cheese) (5,4) |
| BEAK | Word at Eton and Harrow for a schoolmaster; a rostrum shaped according to the diet of the bird to which it belongs; or, a projection at the prow of an ancient galley (4) |
| ANTS | Insects studied in myrmecology that constitute the majority of the diet of green woodpeckers (4) |
| BAMBOO | Constituting the diet of the giant panda, a tall woody grass and the world's fastest-growing land plant (6) |
| PROTEIN | Substance essential in the diet of animals for growth and repair of tissues (7) |
| JOHNCALVIN | French theologian and major figure of the Protestant Reformation (4,6) |
| FARO | Game based on betting on the order of the appearance of certain playing cards that became popular when its predecessor basset was outlawed by Louis XIV (4) |
| METHODISM | Nonconformist branch of the Protestant church derived from the teachings of 18th-century English preacher John Wesley (9) |
| SEATURTLES | The diet of indigenous Tampa Bay-area tribes included these creatures, still found in the bay today |
