| LUTHERAN | Protestant initially living under threat - he escaped |
| HUGUENOT | Protestant initially hasn't understood foreign tongue (8) |
| THEPOWERSTHATBE | Prisoner held amid best threat he devised for prevailing authority (3,6,4,2) |
| TRIPOLI | Capital with power to stop small group initially living independently (7) |
| TIGER | Organised a tripper, eg, who was not the threat he appeared to be (5,5) |
| PAPER | Organised a tripper, eg, who was not the threat he appeared to be (5,5) |
| DELUSIONAL | Get the munchies here, going around America on a Lambretta, initially living the dream (10) |
| ORIEL | Terms for oratorio conductor that is initially living in Oxford college (5) |
| ARSENIC | aA€A¦as he escaped hollow under seat? (7) |
| HOUDINI | He escaped from the house to Ulster after mutiny (7) |
| ELUDED | Due to be led out, he escaped by stratagem |
| INFAMY | Popular with relatives at Caen he's escaped public disgrace |
| ICARUS | In Greek mythology, the son of Daedalus, with whom he escaped from Crete (6) |
| THEMES | What we're speaking of are the meshes he's escaped from (6) |
| ORDERS | Groups living under particular religious rules (6) |
| ECOSYSTEM | Bugs living under a rock, as an example of one |
| SUBJECT | Person living under the rule of a monarch (7) |
| TROLL | Tax to cross river goes to one living under bridge |
| NUN | A member of a community of women living under religious vows |
| CONTENTED | Happy with convict living under canvas |
