| UNORTHODOXY | The quality of being unconventional in belief, behaviour or custom (11) |
| ATYPICAL | A terrible pity about a student being unconventional |
| EPATANT | Shocking, especially from being unconventional |
| DETERMINISM | Prevent officer stopping car, in belief that we have no real choice |
| FORMALITIES | Requirements of etiquette or custom |
| COMMEILFAUT | Correct in behaviour or etiquette (French) (5,2,4) |
| INSTITUTION | Established law or custom |
| HIGHSPIRITS | Lively and cheerful behaviour or mood (4,7) |
| DEVIATE | To differ or diverge or cause to differ or diverge, as in belief or thought (7) |
| MANNER | From Latin for "hand", word for the way in which anything is handled or done; a kind or sort; usual practice or behaviour; or, one's air or bearing (6) |
| BOHO | Informally, socially unconventional in a way regarded as characteristic of creative artists (4) |
| CLASS | Social standing; a lecture, lesson or course of instruction; or, elegance in behaviour or dress |
| RELIC | An object or custom that has survived the passage of time (5) |
| OBSERVANCE | The keeping of a law, rule or custom (10) |
| TRIBE | A group of people of the same language, race or customs (5) |
| BOHEMIAN | Unconventional in behaviour (8) |
| WEIRDOS | People who are unconventional in dress, etc (7) |
| OFFBEAT | Unconventional in Feb, oft a tangle (7) |
| DEFEATISM | Act in belief in God's negative disposition (9) |
| CRESCENDO | Row cut short in belief of increasing noise level (9) |
