| GNOSIS | Intuitive apprehension of spiritual truths |
| RISHI | Hindu sage or teacher of great spiritual truths (5) |
| CONTINENTALARMY | Washington's men, temperate on the Fourth of July, without apprehension of danger (11,4) |
| COLDFEET | Apprehension of Old Bill in court (4,4) |
| FEAR | Apprehension of fare dodging? (4) |
| ALARM | Apprehension of danger (5) |
| NARKED | Open with apprehension of resistance, annoyed |
| DREADED | Feared greatly; was in extreme apprehension of. (7) |
| ALAMO | Apprehension of danger losing right old battle (5) |
| KNOWLEDGE | Apprehension of a thousand currently on shelf (9) |
| ARRESTWARRANT | Legal document authorising apprehension of an offender (6,7) |
| ALARMED | With apprehension of little boys at arm's length (7) |
| UNIMPEDED | University rioting ended with apprehension of troublemaker on the loose |
| CITIZENSARRESTS | Apprehensions of malfeasance at a bank? |
| CHAKRA | Word, from Sanskrit for "circle, wheel", in allusion to the wheel of time or dharma, for any one of the vortexes of spiritual energy in the body, each assigned a unique colour (6) |
| EVAPERON | First Lady of Argentina from 1946 to 1952, given the honorary title of Spiritual Leader of the Nation (3,5) |
| BUDDAA | Founder of a religion of spiritual purity (6) |
| BUDDHA | Founder of a group of spiritual beliefs, born Siddhartha Gautama (6) |
| YOGIC | Greeting first of guys in charge of spiritual discipline (5) |
| ASHRAMA | Any one of the four stages of spiritual life in Hinduism (7) |