| VERS | The King James, for example: abbr. |
| BIBLE | King James, for example, showing bitterness about start of battle (5) |
| CAV | Basketball's King James, for one |
| APOSTLE | John or James, for example, having pale ale outside (7) |
| OUTLAW | Jesse James, for example (6) |
| CRIMEWRITER | Ruth Rendell, Agatha Christie or Peter James, for example (5,6) |
| ONSIDE | James, for example, stops a person working towards same goal (6) |
| WEPT | The shortest verse in the King James Version of the Bible (5,4) |
| JESUS | The shortest verse in the King James Version of the Bible (5,4) |
| JESUSWEPT | The shortest verse in the King James Version of the Bible |
| REVISED | _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Version, an update of the King James Version of the Bible from the late 19th century (7) |
| MALACHI | The last book in the Old Testament of the King James Bible (7) |
| THOUSHALTNOTKILL | One of the Ten Commandments in the King James Version of the Bible |
| THELITTLEFOXES | 1939 play by Lillian Hellman whose title comes from the Song of Solomon in the King James version of the Bible |
| INTHEBEGINNING | The words starting Genesis in the King James Bible |
| THOU | Prominent pronoun of the King James Bible; the modern-day 'you' (4) |
| NOAH | In the King James Bible, the first person to be "drunken" |
| STIRIN | Those, according to the King James Bible, to whom the 13/12 belongs? (4,2,6) |
| POORIN | Those, according to the King James Bible, to whom the 13/12 belongs? (4,2,6) |
| SACKBUT | The ____ is anachronistically included in a list of musical instruments in the King James Bible's book of Daniel |
