| TABERNACLE | Can be a central figure in place of worship (10) |
| PENCIL | Draw nice figures in place (6) |
| PURISTS | Pedants elevated titled figure in places (7) |
| PUTTI | Cherubic figures in place with rising appeal (5) |
| DESCENDANT | Offspring of central figure in Dante's "Inferno"? (10) |
| HEATHCLIFF | Central figure in eWuthering Heights (10) |
| MAXWEBER | German economist and sociologist; a central figure in the development of sociology (3,5) |
| GRANT | Owner of Charleston Farmhouse with Vanessa Bell who was a central figure in the Bloomsbury Group set with other creatives including Virginia Woolf and his cousin Lytton Strachey (5) |
| MIDDLEMAN | A central figure in commerce (9) |
| DOMECHURCH | Catholic interrupting her much distressed after knees-up in place of worship (4,6) |
| ASSEMBLIES | Gathers round one in places of worship (10) |
| ANN | Jo ___ Robinson, civil rights activist who was a central figure in the Montgomery bus boycott |
| VIRGINIAWOOLF | Who was a central figure in the Bloomsbury group and wrote Mrs Dalloway (1925)? (8,5) |
| NORTH | US Army officer who was a central figure in the 1980s Iran-Contra Affair (5) |
| VOYSEY | A central figure of the Arts and Crafts movement whose textile design Birds of Many Climes depicts avians including blue tanager, canary, finch, Japanese robin, king bird-of-paradise and yellow-tufted |
| AZURE | From "lapis lazuli", the cerulean of a cloudless sky or the "king's" blue of a heraldic tincture - a colour once so costly, Renaissance painters reserved it for the robes of central figures in religio |
| SCOPES | John T ___, central figure in a 1925 trial related to the teaching of the theory of evolution |
| CHILDEHAROLD | A young man who is the central figure in a long narrative poem by Lord Byron (6,6) |
| ALTAIR | Star shows a bit of interest in place of worship (6) |
| CHAPEL | Man in front of the Spanish in place of worship (6) |
