| AZARIA | Hank who refused to appear in "The Problem with Apu" |
| HARI | Comedian Kondabolu who starred in the documentary "The Problem With Apu" |
| ENSNARLS | Gets caught up in the problem boss learns about setting up national school (8) |
| ADO | Word replaced with "Apu" in a punning Simpsons episode title (3) |
| SIR | British statesman who refused to take the oath of supremacy to Henry VIII as head of the Church and was executed for high treason in 1535 (3,6,4) |
| MORE | British statesman who refused to take the oath of supremacy to Henry VIII as head of the Church and was executed for high treason in 1535 (3,6,4) |
| THOMAS | British statesman who refused to take the oath of supremacy to Henry VIII as head of the Church and was executed for high treason in 1535 (3,6,4) |
| CLEMENT | _ VII, pope who refused to authorise the annulment of the marriage of Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon (7) |
| DANIELINDENIAL | Biblical guy who refused to believe the writing on the wall? |
| SARTRE | Jean-Paul - - -, French philosopher and writer who refused to accept the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature (6) |
| THOMASMORE | Lord Chancellor who refused to acknowledge Henry VIII as head of the Church of England and was executed in 1532 (6,4) |
| TELL | One who refused to accept tyranny to work as a bank clerk (4) |
| PAN | The boy who refused to grow up, Peter ... |
| ALI | Muhammad who refused to be drafted into the Vietnam War |
| SELES | Athlete who refused to play in Germany after 1993 |
| ERICLIDDELL | 1924 Olympic sprinter who refused to run on a Sunday in Chariots of Fire (4,7) |
| MAVERICK | What word came from the name of a Texas rancher who refused to brand his cattle? (8) |
| ROSAPARKS | African American civil rights activist who refused to give up her bus seat for a white passenger in December 1955 (4,5) |
| LUTHERAN | A follower of a German theologian who refused to renounce his views at the 1521 Diet of Worms |
| STOODOUT | Was prominent among people who refused to yield? (5,3) |
