| LEAPING | (OBC) "On the tenth day of Christmas my true love sent to me/Ten lords a -" (7) |
| LORDS | 'On the tenth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me ten...' (5,1-7) |
| ALEAPING | 'On the tenth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me ten...' (5,1-7) |
| LORDSALEAPING | Ten of these were sent to me by my true love on the tenth day of Christmas (5,1-7) |
| LEAP | Jump like a lord on the 10th day of Christmas (4) |
| ASHURA | Holy day observed on the 10th day of Muharram, the Islamic calendar's first month |
| APRIORI | It may be deduced from this that it starts on the tenth of April (1,6) |
| LOANING | The French copying what ten lords were doing? (7) |
| LEAPERS | Ten lords in a Christmas carol, e.g. |
| TITANIC | Subject of Walter Lord's "A Night to Remember" |
| OPENERS | Batsmen making duck at Lord's, a number being caught |
| KINGFISHER | One of the Angle monarchs? - Was just a bird to me (10) |
| TENEMENT | Figure on getting me ten passes to the building (8) |
| LEAPER | One of ten lords in the Christmas song |
| TEN | Number of lords a-leaping in The Twelve Days of Christmas (3) |
| YOMKIPPUR | Jewish holy day which occurs annually on the 10th of Tishrei (3,6) |
| PERSONALLY | For a joke, holding on to me (10) |
| SERGEANT | John ___, broadcaster who authored 2001 volume of autobiography Give Me Ten Seconds (8) |
| TITHE | It has to go back on the tenth (5) |
| TENTH | Lords a-leaping day of Christmas (5) |
