| LETTHEREBELIGHT | First commandment: have the mutineer ahead of battle executed |
| NEOPHYTES | Rookies oddly need nothing ahead of battles, we're told |
| PITCAIRN | Island in the South Pacific, part of a UK Overseas Territory; uninhabited until the landing of the mutineers of the Bounty in 1790 (8) |
| BLIGH | The mutineers thought him a bit of a blighter (5) |
| IDOLS | Violations of the First Commandment |
| ORDER | Difficult task for the chosen people, given Moses' first commandment from the mountain? (1,4,5) |
| ATALL | Difficult task for the chosen people, given Moses' first commandment from the mountain? (1,4,5) |
| THY | "I am the Lord ___ God" (First Commandment words) |
| MONOTHEIST | To me, Shinto gets complicated when following the first commandment |
| IDOLATRY | Practice forbidden by the First Commandment |
| OFGOD | Say, in faith, how you'd imprecate the first commandment for heaven's sake! (2,3,4,2,3) |
| INTHENAME | Say, in faith, how you'd imprecate the first commandment for heaven's sake! (2,3,4,2,3) |
| IDOL | God damn it! Moses' first commandment broken by what he himself broke? (4) |
| BEHEST | That man breaks first commandment |
| OTHERGODSME | First Commandment phrase |
| PAULMCGANN | Star of 1986 BBC TV drama series The Monocled Mutineer |
| FLETCHER | ___ Christian, leading mutineer against the command of William Bligh on HMS Bounty (8) |
| PAUL | Star of 1986 BBC TV drama series The Monocled Mutineer (4,6) |
| MCGANN | Star of 1986 BBC TV drama series The Monocled Mutineer (4,6) |
| NEE | Born to be a bit of a mutineer ... (3) |