| FROWNS | Confesses to the priest, who looks disapproving |
| LAOCOON | In Greek mythology, the priest who warned the Trojans against accepting the Greeks' wooden horse (7) |
| JEHOIADA | The priest who strengthened himself (2 Chron. 23 |
| UNIONMAN | The priest who married father and mother of Jim Larkin? (5,3) |
| COLES | Surname of Richard, the priest who took part in Strictly in 2017 (5) |
| LAMA | The French go to mother - we go to the priest (4) |
| BIRETTA | Thanks to the tribe it is restricted to the priest's head |
| CHAPLAIN | The fellow had been lying to the priest (8) |
| AMEN | Parishioners' response to the priest, often |
| TOPIC | Theme for sermon given to the priest in charge (5) |
| TAKESTHEBLAME | Confesses to father perhaps, the vampire slayers lost the head with most of them getting criticism (5,3,5) |
| ORDAINS | Admits him to the priest hood so I do give a darn! (7) |
| ADMITS | Confesses to finding millions in mine entrance at the beginning of September (6) |
| OWNSUP | Confesses to being part of a town's uprising (4,2) |
| STOIC | Greek in school partially confesses to iconoclasm |
| OWNS | Confesses to having in one's possession (4) |
| CLOWNS | Cowell, gutted, confesses to creating figures of fun (6) |
| TELLSALL | Confesses to lofty coverage of some angles. (5,3) |
| SONYA | Raskolnikov confesses to her in Dostoevsky's novel Crime and Punishment |
| SHILLINGS | Confesses to hiding heap of old coins (9) |
