| HUMANISM | The doctrine rejects the supernatural in favour of man-based morality (8) |
| GODLY | Supernatural in a divine way |
| FORSAKEN | In favour of man going round South Africa, abandoned (8) |
| PEEL | Isle of Man-based microcar maker (4) |
| FORMULA | Mathematical rule in favour of Man United, initially, then City? (7) |
| ADHERENT | One believes in and helps spread the doctrine of another (8) |
| ERASTIAN | Follower of the doctrine that the state is supreme in ecclesiastical matters |
| LENINIST | A follower of the doctrines of Vladimir Ulyanov (8) |
| DISCIPLE | One who follows or believes in the doctrines of another (8) |
| IDEOLOGY | The doctrine of GI Dooley (8) |
| LUTHERAN | Any member of a church founded on the doctrines of a German Protestant theologian, 1483-1546 (8) |
| PACIFISM | The doctrine that no violence is justifiable (8) |
| ATHEISTS | Those who reject the existence of God or gods (8) |
| OPTIMISM | "The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly," per Ambrose Bierce |
| SPURIOUS | Almost reject the debts, they're false (8) |
| TURNDOWN | Reject, ... the offer (4,4) |
| UNITARIAN | One who rejects the doctrine of the Trinity |
| UTILITARIANISM | The doctrine that the morally correct course of action consists in the greatest good for the greatest number |
| SKEPTICISM | Philosophical doctrine of Pyrrho of Elis (c. 360270 BC), which rejects the possibility of certain knowledge (10) |
| SALVATION | The doctrine of predestination was the foundation for the Puritan's concept of this |
