| ORGANZA | Plays it from A to Z and back as a member of the cloth |
| RUDOLPH | Who's depicted in this puzzle when the circled letters are connected from A to Z and back to A |
| USA | America in short, front and back as usual (1,1,1) |
| REACTOR | Member of the cloth has injected a chemical substance! |
| MASON | No, Sam! Come back as a member of society! |
| RETURNTOTHEFOLD | Come back as a member |
| ZEALOT | A to Z and basics of English language baffling a fundamentalist (6) |
| ALPHABETS | A to Z and alpha to omega |
| LAIC | Not a member of the cloth |
| LETTER | Word, from the Latin for "culture, epistle, learning, literature" and connected to "leather writing material", for any one of the alphabetic characters from A to Z (6) |
| TRAPEZE | From A to Z, Peter is looked up to at the circus (7) |
| SPINET | The Northerner takes spite and plays it as of old (6) |
| ALPHABETIC | Ralph loses his head before a bet, I see, and runs from A to Z (10) |
| RETRONYM | A type of neologism that provides a new name for an object or concept to differentiate it from a more recent form or version |
| BANDITTI | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid? You too heard it from a couple of directions! (8) |
| COPRA | Both the policeman and the sun-god get it from a coconut (5) |
| CHAST | The New Yorker cartoonist who wrote "What I Hate: From A to Z" |
| ALPHABETICALLY | I play ball and teach Evolution from A-to-z. (14) |
| ULTIMATE | My mother takes a lute and plays it at the Final (8) |
| AMAZON | Its logo features a smile stretching from A to Z |
