| NEWFIE | Perhaps a person of St John's extreme wisdom originally in fine novel |
| CREATUREOFHABIT | Monk, perhaps, a person of unchanging routines (8,2,5) |
| AUSTRIAN | Perhaps a person from Down Under gives away a pound for a European (8) |
| ENOCH | Arden perhaps a person turning on house of God (5) |
| FRIERNBARNET | North London suburb whose name recalls that it belonged to the Order of Knights of St John of Jerusalem until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s (6,6) |
| NATHANAEL | Disciple of Jesus, mentioned in chapters 1 and 21 of the Gospel of St John (9) |
| FLATROCK | Newfoundland town north of St. John's, home of the Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto |
| NUMBERONE | ...perhaps a person feeling less favoured (6,3) |
| SCAPEGOAT | Flee missing the first kid perhaps, a person to blame (9) |
| TURCOPOLE | Light-armed soldier of the Knights of St John of Jerusalem (9) |
| BADGER | Sett-dwelling animal known as a brock; or, a junior member of St John Ambulance (6) |
| TUTSAN | From Old French for "all healthy", "heal-all" or "wholesome", a shrubby species of St John's wort, also called parkleaves or sweet-amber and formerly regarded as a panacea (6) |
| VANITYFAIR | Tiny changes in volume, a fine novel (6,4) |
| ELFIN | Fine novel about liberal of a puckish sort (5) |
| NEWFANGLED | Excessively modern inhabitant of St John's, perhaps, that's missing - went fishing |
| BAYBULLS | Fishing community in Newfoundland about minutes south of St. John's: 2 wds. |
| OVERLORDS | Most superior fellows looking down on a bit of St John's Wood? (9) |
| ICON | Smiley, perhaps, a person uncritically admired |
| DALI | "Christ of St. John of the Cross" artist |
| VALLETTA | Island capital, location of the baroque Co-Cathedral of St John |
