| LAOCOON | In Greek mythology, a priest who warned against accepting the wooden horse of the Greeks into Troy (7) |
| CORYBANT | In classical mythology, a priest of the goddess Cybele who performed wild ecstatic dances (8) |
| ODYSSEUS | Who devised the strategy of the Wooden Horse of Troy (8) |
| SINON | Greek who tricked the Trojans into taking the wooden horse inside the walls of Troy (5) |
| GREEKS | People who built the Wooden Horse of Troy (6) |
| NIOBE | Mythological Greek daughter of Tantalus whose myth warned against the consequences of pride or hubris (5) |
| FLEET | Frederick ---, the lookout aboard the Titanic who warned the bridge of the iceberg (5) |
| ELIJAH | Biblical prophet who warned against worshipping false gods (6) |
| ERASMUS | Illegitimate son of a priest who wrote The Freedom of Will (7) |
| CANON | A priest who is a member of a cathedral chapter. (5) |
| INSTAR | As big as, the image of: "____ montis equum" the wooden horse (Aen 2.15) |
| ABSOLUTION | 1978 film starring Richard Burton as a priest who teaches at a boys' school |
| REVERE | Paul, American patriot who warned the Massachusetts colonists of the oncoming British troops (6) |
| FOX | Hollyoaks bad boy who warned of a bomb placed in Casa McQueen (6,3) |
| WARREN | Hollyoaks bad boy who warned of a bomb placed in Casa McQueen (6,3) |
| ULIXES | Latin name for Greek traveller and trickster; "sic notus ____?" says Laocoon, doubting the wooden horse |
| PADRE | A priest who works with the armed forces (5) |
| FISHING | Activity warned against in offshore defence areas due to shoot to kill orders and no fishing zones. (7) |
| TAO | Against accepting a rational basis of human conduct in Chinese philosophy (3) |
| CASSANDRA | Prophetess who warned of the Trojan Horse |
