| CANDLE | Excommunication accessory, along with a bell and a book (6) |
| FIREHOUSE | Building with a bell and a pole |
| WICKED | Musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman, based on a 1995 Gregory Maguire novel set in the Land of Oz |
| APPEAL | A piano with a bell-like sound, has charm (6) |
| HOTTER | Like a ghost pepper, compared with a bell pepper |
| HERESY | Excommunication was the punishment for this religious dissent |
| HEARYE | Cry with a bell |
| SEANCE | Excommunication meeting? |
| SALLY | Girls' name meaning "princess" that is linked by association with a bell-rope, a dummy, a fairground/pub game, a figure of fun, a quip, a sortie and Worzel Gummidge's mischievous and somewhat vain cou |
| EPITOME | ... put the individual between a record and a book as a succinct example (7) |
| IMPERFECTION | With Nick, I'm as sound as a bell and all charged up! (12) |
| LEADINGLIGHT | Such a person's great standing in field, sound as a bell and cheerful |
| TREASUREISLAND | Cherish one small terrain and a book (8,6) |
| TRAY | Surface for holding wine and a book during a bubble bath |
| MURDOCH | Iris ?, author of novels The Bell and A Word Child (7) |
| TWEAKING | Poorly, if externally sound as a bell and improving slightly |
| CALLTOMIND | Ring a bell and shout "Be careful!" (4,2,4) |
| SERGEANT | He orders cloth and a book collection (8) |
| MATABELE | South Africans produce carpet and a book about eel (8) |
| JEREMIAH | Hebrew major prophet, and a book of the Old Testament (8) |
