| LAYSISTER | A woman who has taken the vows of a religious order but is not yet ordained |
| RANDOM | Border has order, but is lacking a plan (6) |
| IDOS | Vows of a sort |
| NUN | Woman who has taken religious vows (3) |
| KOLNIDRE | Jewish prayer recited at the opening of the service on the eve of Yom Kippur; Aramaic, 'all the vows' (3,5) |
| IDO | Positive response after the vows are read: 2 wds. |
| WIFE | Bride, after the vows |
| MALINGA | Sri Lankan yorker specialist who has taken the most wickets in the history of the IPL |
| DOCTOR | Physician who has taken the Hippocratic oath to "do no harm"; informal word for a ship's cook; artificial fly used in salmon fishing; or, a nickname of W. G. Grace (6) |
| NARINE | Mystery spinner who has taken the most wickets for KKR, he has also played a key role as a pinch hitter |
| UTHAPPA | Quick scoring batsman who has taken the most wicketkeeping dismissals for KKR over time, he now plays for the CSK |
| WARNE | Shane ___, cricketer who has taken the most Test wickets for Australia (5) |
| DERVISH | A Muslim friar who has taken vows of poverty, sometimes noted for dancing or whirling practices (7) |
| PULL | A tug on the line when a fish has taken the fly (4) |
| INO | "..._ _ _ longer believe in the magic of the spoken word. It signifies not order but disorder. It does not eliminate chaos, it only conceals it..." -Elie Wiesel |
| WHIRLING | Spinning Sufi who has taken vows of poverty (8,7) |
| CELIBATE | Person who has taken a religious vow of chastity (8) |
| SUDAN | Since 1983, a combination of civil war and famine has taken the lives of nearly two million people in this country (5) |
| SIDEON | The team has taken the field but can only be seen from this angle (4-2) |
| EELS | Some are electric (and these are not technically of the namesake order, but that's what they're call |