| THETIS | Nymph, or person of faith, with misplaced conclusion (6) |
| MISLAY | Lose a lot of faith with many heartless around (6) |
| LEAP | ___ of Faith with Steve Martin |
| CZECH | Language or person of Prague |
| GEM | Object or person of great beauty and worth |
| IDOL | Object or person of adoration (4) |
| COVERT | Secret person adopting a new faith with no end of passion (6) |
| DRYADS | From "oak", name for nymphs or spirits who delight in said quercus or in woods generally; or, forest-trees (6) |
| THEIST | Person of faith, one to probe my dalliance on vacation? |
| BRAHMI | I leave Isaac's father with misplaced identity initially for script (6) |
| IMELDA | Lady with misplaced idealism is leaving (6) |
| ABLAZE | Excited seaman with misplaced zeal |
| MERMAID | A mythical siren, water nymph or literal "sea woman", in the form of a beautiful undine with a fish's tail (7) |
| OREAD | Mountain nymph (or the start of an ode to literacy?) |
| DRYAD | A nymph or divinity of the woods (5) |
| NAIAD | Ancient Greek water nymph, or a moon of Neptune (5) |
| HINDU | Person of faith indulged, essentially (5) |
| MORON | Idiot and person of faith losing marbles, initially (5) |
| INSTYLE | Trendy person of faith has rejected cathedral impressively (2,5) |
| ARC | Discharge a person of faith (3) |
