| AUTODAFE | A ceremony of the Spanish Inquisition (4-2-2) |
| BATH | Chivalric order named for a ceremony of purification (4) |
| ANOINT | Put oil on in a ceremony of consecration |
| HARP | Only nonvocal instrument in Britten's "A Ceremony of Carols" |
| PENDULUM | The _ _ _ _, short story by Edgar Allan Poe about the torture of a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition (3,3,3,8) |
| ISABELLA | Queen who established the Spanish Inquisition |
| ANDTHE | The _ _ _ _, short story by Edgar Allan Poe about the torture of a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition (3,3,3,8) |
| PIT | The _ _ _ _, short story by Edgar Allan Poe about the torture of a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition (3,3,3,8) |
| THEPIT | ___ And The Pendulum, short story by Edgar Allan Poe about the torture of a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition (3,3) |
| OLYMPICS | Gisele appeared at the opening ceremony of the 2016 Summer ___ |
| MERIDIAN | ___ Centre (St. Catharines site on August 6th for the Opening Ceremony of the 2022 Canada Summer Games) |
| PARANOID | Black Sabbath hit, played at the closing ceremony of the 2022 Commonwealth Games (8) |
| PADRE | Cushion concerning member of the Spanish Inquisition perhaps |
| TORQUEMADA | Tomas de ?, 15th-century Dominican friar; first Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition |
| XIMENES | Chief of the Spanish Inquisition (7) |
| APSE | The end of the church returned in the Spanish Inquisition (4) |
| GARROTTE | Spanish Inquisition torture tool |
| ISABELLAI | Queen of Castile 1474-1504 who, with her husband Ferdinand II, instituted the Spanish Inquisition and backed Columbus's expedition of 1492 (8,1) |
| FRANCISCOGOYA | Spanish romantic painter and printmaker whose works include La maja desnuda and La maja vestida, both confiscated by the Spanish Inquisition in 1813 (9,4) |
| MELBOURNE | At the closing ceremony of the 1956 Olympics, the traditional parade of national teams was discarded for the first time, and athletes were allowed to mingle as they moved around the stadium. This was |
