| DEISM | Belief in a creator that left the world alone |
| THEISM | Belief in a creator |
| CHICHESTER | Adventurer who sailed round the world alone in Gipsy Moth IV (10) |
| CHAY | Mr. Blyth, yachtsman who sailed round the world alone betwen 1970-71 (4) |
| ZAYN | Member of the boyband who came third on The X Factorin 2010 that left the band in 2015 (4) |
| BREAKER | The wave that left the fish on the rocks? (7) |
| LUFTWAFFE | Those old foreign high flyers - the ones that left the neighbour's place like a bomb hit it (9) |
| SSTS | Boomers that left the work force in 2003 (abbr.) |
| TULANE | School that left the SEC in 1966 |
| ONSLAUGHT | Attack that left the salon wrecked by the awful thug (9) |
| PANDAS | Animals that left the National Zoo for China in 2023 |
| THEIST | Believer in a creator god |
| DEIST | Believer in a creator who doesn't intervene |
| THEISTS | Believers in a creator |
| USSR | Superpower that left the map in the 1990s |
| MUNGU | He is a rain deity, and, among the Pygmies, he is a creator god who sometimes seems to be a first ancestor and sometimes a cultural hero. What is his name? |
| MILNE | A. A. ---, creator of the gang in box D (5) |
| FORM | Shape or mould, such as that left in the grass by the body of a sleeping hare; or, a long seat or bench (4) |
| COLE | A creator of Bod, Bric-a-Brac, Chock-A-Block, Fingerbobs, Gran, Pigeon Street and other programmes for children; or, a vegetable for slaw (4) |
| MAKER | A creator; or, the Creator (5) |
