| DAYSOFAWE | Alternative name for the Jewish High Holidays (Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur), translated literally from the Hebrew Yamim Noraim (4,2,3) |
| ELUL | Hebrew calendar month before the High Holidays |
| BONSAI | Japanese art form whose name, translated literally, refers to planting in a container |
| RIVERHORSE | Hippopotamus, translated literally |
| ROSH | ___ Hashanah (first of the Jewish High Holy Days) |
| ROSHHASHANAH | First of the Jewish High Holy Days |
| ROSASHANAH | First of the Jewish High Holy Days |
| TEN | Number of days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur |
| SHOFAR | Ram's horn used on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur |
| MACHZOR | Prayer book used at Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur (7) |
| HIGHHOLIDAYS | Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur . . . and a feature of 3-, 7-, 9-, and 20-Down? |
| PESACH | Alternative name for the Jewish feast of Passover |
| SUCCOTH | Name for the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles (alternative spelling) (7) |
| AWE | Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur - "The Days of ***" (3) |
| ABIB | Previous name for the Jewish month of Nisan (4) |
| PURIM | And back up on the edge for the Jewish festival (5) |
| HIGLIDAYS | *Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur |
| URIMANDTHUMMIM | Two objects, possibly used for divination, on the breastplate of a biblical Jewish high priest |
| FAST | What many do during Ramadan and Yom Kippur |
| HOLYDAYS | Easter and Yom Kippur, among others: 2 wds |
