| NOBODY | Who expects the Spanish Inquisition, according to Monty Python |
| PALIN | "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!" speaker Michael |
| INQUISITIONS | Spanish things, according to Monty Python, nobody expects (12) |
| IDRINK | How, according to Monty Python, Descartes proved he lived? (1,5) |
| INQUISITION | "Nobody expects the Spanish___" (11) |
| SIDLEUP | Ingratiate oneself to Monty Python member during drink (5,2) |
| PESSIMIST | I avoid rising to interrupt pest who expects the worst (9) |
| OPTIMIST | One who expects the best to happen (8) |
| APSE | The end of the church returned in the Spanish Inquisition (4) |
| GILLIAM | Liquid measure I am giving to Monty Python's Terry (7) |
| PENDULUM | The _ _ _ _, short story by Edgar Allan Poe about the torture of a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition (3,3,3,8) |
| ANDTHE | The _ _ _ _, short story by Edgar Allan Poe about the torture of a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition (3,3,3,8) |
| PIT | The _ _ _ _, short story by Edgar Allan Poe about the torture of a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition (3,3,3,8) |
| FANG | Cardinal played by Terry Gilliam in Monty Python's 'The Spanish Inquisition' sketches (1971) (4) |
| THEPIT | ___ And The Pendulum, short story by Edgar Allan Poe about the torture of a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition (3,3) |
| ISABELLA | Queen who established the Spanish Inquisition |
| PESSIMISTS | People who expect the worst |
| ISABELLAI | Queen of Castile 1474-1504 who, with her husband Ferdinand II, instituted the Spanish Inquisition and backed Columbus's expedition of 1492 (8,1) |
| AUTODAFE | Ceremony of the Spanish Inquisition including the pronouncement and execution of sentences (4-2-2) |
| FRANCISCOGOYA | Spanish romantic painter and printmaker whose works include La maja desnuda and La maja vestida, both confiscated by the Spanish Inquisition in 1813 (9,4) |
