| PERFECTS | Makes textbook for a following - weird sect |
| SUITE | Word for a following, sequence, set, succession or train of attendants, dance tunes, furniture, hotel rooms, minerals, musical pieces or rocks (5) |
| TOC | First section of a textbook, for short |
| PETSCAN | Criticise weird sect going in for medical procedure (3,4) |
| DEFECTS | Being fed up with a weird sect, deserts (7) |
| ASCETICISM | Self-denial of a weird sect in charge of doctrine (10) |
| REINFORCEMENTS | Reserves control for men in weird sect (14) |
| PRIMER | "Introduction to poems" by a mediocre poet becomes an elementary textbook for children (6) |
| READER | Standard textbook for you (6) |
| TACKY | Vulgar eccentric having head in textbook for week (5) |
| ACCOMMODATION | Alternate-format textbook, for example |
| ECSTASY | Drug, say, abused by weird sect (7) |
| DIALECTS | Control weird sect delivering different kinds of speech (8) |
| ASPECTS | Views snake fronting weird sect (7) |
| CEMENTS | Joins people in weird sect (7) |
| EVICTS | Throws out six identified in weird sect (6) |
| LANCETS | Operators may use these computers linked with weird sect (7) |
| STANCE | Weird sect embracing an explicit attitude (6) |
| COLDHEARTEDNESS | Old judge, imprisoned by weird sect, ends insensitivity (4-11) |
| CASTES | Social orders as adopted by weird sect (6) |
