| SECONDREADING | Parliamentary process that derives from the New Testament? |
| EARLYDAYMOTION | Vaguely monitor delay (about a year) in parliamentary process (5,3,6) |
| OTHER | Different, as opposed to Him from the New Testament? |
| STPAUL | The author of several of the books of the New Testament? (2,4) |
| MATTHEW | What is the first Gospel in the New Testament? (7) |
| ROMANS | What is the sixth book of the New Testament? (6) |
| EPISTLE | Long formal letter (found in the New Testament?) (7) |
| RESIDENT | Might a junior diplomat live by the New Testament? (8) |
| NEWT | Animal in the New Testament? |
| ACTS | Turns in the New Testament? (4) |
| RISINGSUN | The Land of the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, term for Japan that derives from the Japanese word for the country (6,3) |
| TENTH | That commandment in the revised New Testament? (5) |
| GODWIT | With a genus name that derives from the Latin meaning "muddy", a wading bird with four existent species including the black-tailed and bar-tailed (6) |
| LABYRINTH | Word for a maze in a landscaped garden or for something inextricably complicated that derives from the elaborate structure built by craftsman Daedalus to house the Minotaur (9) |
| NOVICE | Word for a beginner or tyro that derives from the Middle English meaning "new" (6) |
| LEMON | Relation of lime and bergamot; or, a word for something defective that derives from the aforesaid citrus being the lowest value symbol on some fruit machines (5) |
| KENNEL | Word for a dog's house or hut that derives from the Latin name for said creature; a pack of hounds; or, the den or lair of a fox (6) |
| PEIGNOIR | Word for a dressing-gown or negligee that derives from the French for "to comb", since it was originally worn while combing the hair (8) |
| SINGH | Name originating in India that derives from the Sanskrit word for lion (5) |
| FLETCHER | Surname that derives from the term for a maker of arrows (8) |
