| UNSWORTH | Barry -, author of the novels Pascali's Island and Sacred Hunger (8) |
| GODSACRE | It's green and sacred, with dead buried |
| POPPY | Growing with cornflowers and corncockle in arable fields and sacred to the agriculture goddess Demeter, flower of August, Essex and Norfolk and a symbol of remembrance (5) |
| SHRI | Indian title prefixed to the names of deities, distinguished people and sacred books; now generally used as the equivalent of Mr (4) |
| VESTA | In Roman Mythology - the goddess of the hearth and sacred fire? (5) |
| POLYHYMNIA | In Greek mythology, the Muse of singing, mime, and sacred dance (10) |
| MONTEVERDI | Italian composer who wrote the opera Orfeo and sacred Vespers of 1610 (10) |
| IMAX | Format of such movies as "To the Arctic 3D" and "Sacred Planet" |
| HARPS | Chordophones associated with angels in Christianity, thus symbolic of the divine, heavenly and sacred (5) |
| ERATOPOLYHYMNIA | Connoisseurs of love poetry and sacred poetry |
| IBISES | Wading birds with varieties such as the glossy, hermit and sacred |
| COW | Follower of holy and sacred |
| MOTET | Satisfied about religious books and sacred music |
| MULLAH | Muslim learned in theology and sacred law |
| MISTLETOE | Most elite selection and sacred to 20 (9) |
| ABBAS | Old Algerian leader always backed bishops and sacred leaders |
| PAGODA | Its original purpose was to house Buddhist relics and sacred writings |
| BECOMES | Constant and sacred syllable used among workers in suits |
| HOLY | Said to be perforated and sacred (4) |
| AVOCADO | Fruit and sacred text they deliver (7) |
