| FATHERBROWN | Roman Catholic priest and detective created by G K Chesterton |
| BROWN | Catholic priest and detective in stories by GK Chesterton (6,5) |
| FATHER | Catholic priest and detective in stories by GK Chesterton (6,5) |
| COTTA | Short garment worn by Catholic priests and servers (5) |
| CAMPION | Albert _, fictional adventurer and detective created by the novelist Margery Allingham (7) |
| CADFAEL | Medieval monk and detective created by Ellis Peters |
| FLAMBEAU | Reformed criminal and assistant to Father Brown in stories by G K Chesterton |
| INNOCENCEOF | And 7 The -, 1911 volume of short stories by G K Chesterton (9,2,6,5) |
| MUSICWITH | Start of a comment by G.K. Chesterton |
| NAPOLEONOF | The ___, 1904 novel by G K Chesterton (8,2,7,4) |
| ALARMSANDDISCURSIONS | 1910 collection of essays by G K Chesterton |
| THURSDAY | The Man Who Was -; novel by G. K. Chesterton (8) |
| MANALIVE | 1912 novel by G K Chesterton (8) |
| INNOCENCEOFFATHERBROWN | The ?, 1911 volume of short stories by G K Chesterton |
| THEMANWHOWAS | 1908 novel by G K Chesterton (3,3,3,3,8) |
| NOTTINGHILL | The -, 1904 novel by G K Chesterton - w 1ac (8,2,7,4) |
| THEMANWHOWASTHURSDAY | 1908 novel by G K Chesterton, subtitled A Nightmare |
| ELI | Saint's bones, possibly, abandoned by Roman Catholic priest |
| CARDINAL | Woman trapped by lustful Roman Catholic priest (8) |
| MONTEVERDI | Italian composer and Roman Catholic priest who wrote one of the earliest operas, L'Orfeo, in 1607 (10) |