| RELIGIOUS | Concerned with sacred matters or the church (9) |
| SPIRITUAL | Concerned with sacred matters |
| DIGNITARY | A person of high official position or rank, especially in government or the church (9) |
| MARCH | To walk with a crowd to make people pay attention to something that matters (or the month when we celebrate St. Patrick's Day) |
| BLASPHEME | Utter profane words about sacred matters |
| CONFIDANT | A person with whom one shares personal matters or private thoughts (9) |
| HIPPOLYTA | Queen with sacred thanksgiving keeping one very quiet (9) |
| RUNSCARED | Be frightened with sacred urn getting smashed (3,6) |
| SUBSTANCE | Matter or material of a thing (9) |
| SMALLBEER | Unimportant matter (or drink?) (5,4) |
| SECRECY | Word for concealment; the keeping of arcana or clandestine matters; or, condition of being hidden/private (7) |
| FAD | From a term for trivial matters or nonsense, a word for a fashion, a fleeting craze, a furore or a whim (3) |
| TRIFLES | Minor matters, or British desserts |
| AFFAIRS | Concerns, matters or things to be done |
| SHRINES | Places of worship associated with sacred people or objects (7) |
| ANOINT | In ritual, to mark or smear a person with sacred oil (6) |
| SITCOM | Pose can start with sacred sound in The Good Life, perhaps (6) |
| TITUSANDRONICUS | Play with sacred book at first? The man, I swear, isn't all there! |
| MOTET | Composition with sacred lyrics |
| MOTETS | Choral compositions with sacred lyrics |
