| WISEMAN | He's no fool in the nativity - Solomon, for example? (4,3) |
| TITLE | "Song of Solomon," for example |
| CLEVER | No fool in class at any time? |
| SAGE | Though green, he's no fool (4) |
| THEREARE | Wearing tracksuit bottoms, you might say he's no fool? (5,3,2,5,2,3) |
| ASININE | Like a fool in the role of one having one over the eight (7) |
| SAPPORO | Poor misguided fool in the lead somewhere in Japan (7) |
| FORLORN | Such a fool in the navy has the right to be wretched and neglected (7) |
| PASSOUT | Faint pressure on fool in the open (4,3) |
| CHASSIS | Church is putting fool in the frame (7) |
| PICASSO | Greek character, a fool in the company of a painter (7) |
| GOODWILL | As two words, a phrase from the Biblical annunciation to the shepherds in the Nativity for amity, kindness or well-wishing; or, as one word in the US, a thrift shop (4,4) |
| CLIMATE | Mood of one friend at bottom of class (but no fool) (7) |
| ANTWERP | City associate ___ no fool! (7) |
| BUFFOON | Expert took heart, no fool |
| COSTUMEDRAMA | What the shepherd wore for scene in The Nativity play (7,5) |
| GOLD | One of the gifts in the Nativity story (4) |
| INN | Lodging with no room, in the Nativity story |
| INNKEEPER | Backward glance received by central figure in the Nativity story (9) |
| WISE | Three ___ Men (characters in the Nativity) |
