| OPPOSITENUMBER | Counterpart to Pope is converted, supported by cardinal (8,6) |
| OPPOSITE | Counterpart to pope is reformed (8) |
| LEARNING | Left deserving a little of what to Pope is dangerous |
| GALILEOGALILEI | Illegal goal: one, perhaps, that is converted by Italian prodigy (7,7) |
| SISTINE | Is German function about to refer to Pope Sixtus? (7) |
| ERR | To do so is human, according to Pope (3) |
| ERRS | Is human, according to Pope (4) |
| ALLINBLACK | President Trump raised eyebrows by wearing a blue suit to Pope Francis' funeral on April 26; the Vatican had publicly specified that mourners should dress like this |
| UNERRING | Pope is said to be such a Continental monarch, with supporting sect (8) |
| SWISS | Guard guarding the Pope is, after the South-west, to go South (5) |
| SMOKE | Signal that is white when a pope is elected (5) |
| ALEXANDER | Name given to Pope, either before or after (9) |
| ROMEPENNY | King with crooked money seizing penitentiary's tribute to Pope |
| ASTUTE | Wise, like old king getting closer to Pope (6) |
| APPOINTEE | One chosen for job, primate secures position close to Pope (9) |
| HERETIC | Martin Luther, according to Pope Leo X |
| ANAIH | Female's strange tribute to Pope |
| ALMSFEE | Female's strange tribute to Pope |
| VATICAN | Setter hidden in two containers goes to pope's palace (7) |
| THEDREAMOF | Oratorio by Edward Elgar to text from a poem by Cardinal Newman |
