| MOTHERSUPERIOR | Dad less good, we deduce, as a religious leader (6,8) |
| POPE | Father goes to the east as a religious leader |
| PAY | Give dad less than a penny! (3) |
| REVISEDVERSION | Book such as gets one over sin, might we deduce? |
| SIGNOFTHECROSS | Choir's songfest organised as a religious gesture (4,2,3,5) |
| UNCTION | Action of anointing someone with oil or ointment as a religious rite or as a symbol of investiture as a monarch |
| PONTIFEX | ____ Maximus, High Priest, as much a political title for Caesar as a religious role |
| REASON | Deduce, as one has gone off at a run (6) |
| RASTA | A celebrity's last to come to the fore as a religious believer |
| MORMON | Jolly consumed by religious sect founder as a religious group member (6) |
| ACROSS | A transverse piece on an upright as a religious symbol (1,5) |
| CONCLUDE | Deduce, as you wind it up (8) |
| SUSS | ___ out (deduce as Veronica Mars might) |
| CHIGWELL | It's good we enter cold setting for classic sitcom Birds of a Feather (8) |
| TWA | "Find out how good we really are" sloganeer |
| FOURBYFOUR | Sixteen, we deduce, in sturdy vehicle (4-2-4) |
| SITUP | 'Tis, we deduce, to keep going beyond 15? |
| TOPUP | Add more liquid to pot, we deduce! (3,2) |
| MEDAL | Inscripted commemorative flat piece of metal / disk bearing a symbol, blessed and worn as a religious token |
| HAIRSHIRT | A garment made of rough uncomfortable cloth worn next to the skin as a religious penance (4,5) |
