| ABBOTS | A bishop flies early on - other religious types too |
| SCHOOLMEN | Rugby players, perhaps - academic types, too |
| CREEDAL | Relating to a statement of Christian or other religious beliefs (7) |
| ORDAIN | Make someone a priest or other religious leader (6) |
| HERMIT | From "desert-dweller, deserted, lonely, solitary", word for an eremite or other religious recluse, thus a loner or solitudinarian generally (6) |
| RABBI | Artist joining bishops and one other religious leader |
| CLERICS | Priests or other religious leaders |
| PRIORY | Earlier term for monastery or other religious building (6) |
| SEEKS | Is on the lookout for sound religious types (5) |
| MISSIONARIES | Embassy receives a heavenly sign for religious types (12) |
| SISTERS | Religious types staging rites on board (7) |
| BUDDHISM | Coach rings theologian, greeting master for religious types in India (8) |
| SHEIKHS | Religious types entertaining ambassador and rulers (7) |
| ANCHORITES | Religious types love entering various chantries (10) |
| ABBESSES | Sailor and ship beset by busy people (religious types) (8) |
| OBLATES | Religious types laid vestment out at first the wrong way |
| CALVINISTS | Religious types visit Lancs resort |
| NUNS | Religious types, any number infiltrating student organisation |
| INSECT | Praying mantis, say, associated with religious types? |
| PRESBYTERIANS | Religious types converting Britney Spears? (13) |
