| WILLEM | Played Jesus in The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) |
| DAFOE | Willem who played Jesus in "The Last Temptation of Christ" |
| VERNA | Bloom who played Mary in "The Last Temptation of Christ" |
| GRAIL | Bowl used by Jesus in The Last Supper; the Holy ___ (5) |
| SCORSESE | "The Last Temptation of Christ" director |
| WILLEMDAFOE | American actor whose films include Platoon and The Last Temptation of Christ |
| TREASON | "The last temptation is the greatest ___: to do the right deed for the wrong reason." (Murder in the Cathedral, T S Eliot) |
| CANDLEMAS | Christian festival commemorating the purification of the Virgin Mary and the presentation of the infant Jesus in the Temple, held on 2 February (9) |
| RACE | Milton poem largely about the temptation of Christ |
| NEELEY | Ted ___, singer and actor who played Jesus Christ in the 1973 film Jesus Christ Superstar (6) |
| BEATITUDE | In the New Testament, any of eight distinctive sayings of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount (9) |
| BARTHOLOMEW | One of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus in the New Testament; patron saint of tanners (11) |
| JIM | Actor who plays Jesus in The Passion of the Christ, ___ Caviezel |
| JOACHIM | The father of Mary, mother of Jesus, in the Roman Catholic, Orthodox and Anglican traditions (7) |
| BEATITUDES | Sayings of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount (10) |
| REDEEMER | One of the many titles given to Jesus in the Christian church (8) |
| JUDAS | Disciple who betrayed Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane (5,8) |
| ISCARIOT | Disciple who betrayed Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane (5,8) |
| MIRACLE | Act of Jesus in the Bible |
| MARY | Magdalene, a follower of Jesus in the New Testament (4) |
