| HAJJ | A pilgrim who journeys to Mecca. |
| PILGRIMAGES | Journeys to Mecca, perhaps (11) |
| PILGRIM | Person who journeys to a sacred place (7) |
| VILAYSACK | Comedian/actress Kulap ___, who journeys to Laos to find her biological father in the documentary "Origin Story" |
| PILGRIMS | Those who journey to a sacred place (8) |
| SCRIP | Old word for a pilgrim's pouch, a satchel or a small bag; a writing; a fragment of paper; or, a certificate entitling its holder to dividends or shares allocated in a bonus issue (5) |
| QUEST | Whether a knight's crusade for the Grail, a pilgrim's progress to a holy place, a philosopher's pursuit of truth, a hound's hunt for game or a computer's scan for data, it is a word, from "ask, seek", |
| HADJI | One who has been a pilgrim to Mecca (5) |
| HAJI | Muslim who has been to Mecca as a pilgrim (4) |
| HAJJI | Pilgrim who's been to Mecca |
| AMPULLA | A two-handled ancient Roman flask; an altar cruet for consecrated wine and water; a pilgrim's bottle; or, a vessel for holy oil at a coronation (7) |
| SCALLOP | A mollusc with a fan-shaped shell; one of its valves, as a pilgrim's badge; or, a little dish, potato fritter or wavy edge, like said fluted shell (7) |
| SHIA | Many a pilgrim to Mecca |
| ISLAM | Faith for a pilgrim to Mecca |
| WAYFARER | Literary word for a person who journeys or travels on foot; or, a classic style of Ray-Ban sunglasses (8) |
| TRAVELLER | Person who journeys from one place to another (9) |
| CANAAN | Container carrying a couple of articles to a pilgrim spot (6) |
| STAFF | The people in a firm may come to the support of a pilgrim (5) |
| PALMER | Word for a pilgrim from the Holy Land carrying a hand-shaped leaf; or, a hairy hoary caterpillar of wandering or migratory habits (6) |
| SCARF | First a purse/scrip suspended from a pilgrim's neck, now a neck-warming kerchief, muffler, shawl or stole (5) |
