| FRANCIS | Name saint or pope? Brother no longer can (7) |
| TAGS | Names saint returning carrying silver (4) |
| AGNES | Girl's name; Saint's Eve, 20 January (5) |
| ASCENSION | Church starts to name saints in a holy location in religious feast |
| AUREOLA | In art, a golden or luminous cloud represented encircling the body or head of a saint or other sacred personage; or, a halo around the sun or moon (7) |
| LOSER | McDowell or Pope, at Bull Run |
| JOHN | E.g. Keats, Milton, or Pope, often (4) |
| BREVE | An authoritative letter from a sovereign or Pope |
| PAULI | Physicist or pope, first of six (5) |
| POET | Sexton or Pope, e.g. |
| SATIRIST | Writer such as Swift or Pope (8) |
| NIMBUS | A dark grey rain-cloud; an artistic representation of an aureole, gloriole, halo or luminous mist encircling an angel, deity or saint; or, any surrounding colour or light (6) |
| THRONES | Elevated seats of kings, queens or popes; or, the third order of angels (7) |
| HALO | Word for a circle of light round the Sun or the Moon originally, later the nimbus of a saint; or, the figurative aura of glory of a venerated person (4) |
| PETER | Saint or czar |
| PASTOR | Father, saint or priest (6) |
| TRAINSTATION | Saint or taint (anag) (5,7) |
| BEAST | Be a little saint, or a monster (5) |
| PATRON | Saint or angel |
| CURE | Blaspheme in the absence of saint or priest |
