| LOGIA | Sayings attributed to Christ (5) |
| YEONE | "Love ___ another" (words attributed to Christ) |
| HADITH | Body of tradition and sayings attributed to Muhammad |
| ANALECTS | Collection of ideas and sayings attributed to the Chinese philosopher Confucius (8) |
| WHILETHERESLIFETHERESHOPE | Optimistic saying attributed to Theocritus, ending with '...and only the dead have none' (5,6,4,6,4) |
| VENIVIDIVICI | Saying attributed to Julius Caesar |
| LAWYER | "Compromise is the best and cheapest ___" (saying attributed to Robert Louis Stevenson) |
| TRICKSHOT | Turned to Christ, accepting King's miraculous performance (5,4) |
| TOMTOWER | Oxford landmark named after a bell at the entrance to Christ Church college (3,5) |
| GREATTOM | Bell above the entrance to Christ Church, Oxford (5,3) |
| AGNUSDEI | Prayer addressed to Christ |
| JUDASISCARIOT | Traitor to Christ |
| MAS | Attachment to "Christ"? |
| RIO | *Home to Christ the Redeemer |
| LAMB | Young animal likened to Christ in the gospels |
| NICODEMUS | Pharisee who gave support to Christ |
| IAN | It may be connected to Christ? |
| CRUMBS | Word for the fragments of bread recalled in an old-school euphemism akin to Christ, Christmas, god, gracious, heavens, heck, holy mackerel or lord; or, morsels of information (6) |
| NOTHING | (and 19 across, 2 down, 4 down, 21 down) Saying - attributed to Benjamin Franklin - on the subject of inevitability (7) |
| SUTRA | Collection of Hindu or Buddhist sayings (5) |
