| OMASUM | Old master requires whole bible for a 17 (6) |
| GALLIO | Roman senator, brother of the writer Seneca, mentioned in the Bible for dismissing charges against Paul the Apostle (6) |
| IRVING | Classic of the Chinese to install bible for church in Washington |
| NOREST | Saying that has its origins back in the Bible, ... for the wicked (2,4) |
| SUBWAY | Fast-food company founded in Connecticut in 1965 by a 17-year-old college student and a nuclear physicist (6) |
| TWO | Points for a 17-foot jumper |
| PENNYBLACK | Miniature portrait of Victoria, 12 for a 17? |
| ENIGMA | The ____ of Kaspar Hauser is a Werner Herzog film about a 17-year old foundling in 19th-centrury Nuremberg |
| PETERS | Jim ?, Briton who collapsed during the 1954 Empire Games marathon, while holding a 17-minute lead (6) |
| CICADA | Insect mistakenly called a 17-year locust |
| QANTAS | Flag carrier with a 17-hour nonstop flight to London |
| RATEDM | Like entertainment software with a "17+" restriction |
| PERICOPE | From "a cutting-out", a clipping or extract, particularly a passage from the Bible for reading in church (8) |
| INDIAPAPER | A kind of crowd paid back by Primate for writing material used in The Bible, for example (5,5) |
| AGGREGATE | Annoy, for example replacing Bible for mass (9) |
| HARVARD | Difficult to get hold of a particular Bible for US university |
| LIBRARIANS | They know where there's a stack of Bibles for those having a job stocking shelves (10) |
| PARTHENOGENESIS | Initially perused another, different book of the Bible for the Virgin Birth (15) |
| PERVERSE | Difficult bit of the Bible for each to start with (8) |
| BIGOT | Significant part of Bible for sectarian |
