| IISAN | Eighth civil and second religious month of the Jewish year, usually falling within April and May (5) |
| ELUL | Twelfth civil and sixth religious month of the Jewish year, usually falling within August and September (4) |
| ADAR | In the Jewish calendar, the sixth civil and twelfth religious month of the year, usually falling within February and March (4) |
| NISAN | Seventh civil and first religious month of the Jewish year, in which Passover falls (5) |
| TEBET | Fourth month of the Jewish civil, and tenth of the religious, year (5) |
| EPOCH | Millions of years, usually |
| TEENS | Tough years, usually |
| LISTS | Civil and shopping, e.g. (5) |
| ADARSHENI | Extra month of the Jewish year occurring about every three years (4,5) |
| TISHRI | This, funnily, starts to recite incantations in the beginning of the Jewish year (6) |
| SHEBAT | Fifth month of the Jewish year |
| AB | Eleventh month of the Jewish year |
| DAYOFATONEMENT | Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year (3,2,9) |
| MESSIDOR | Tenth month of the French Revolutionary calendar, falling within June and July; from Latin, 'harvest' (8) |
| NIVOSE | Fourth month of the French Revolutionary calendar, falling within December and January; from Latin, 'snowy' (6) |
| YOMKIPPUR | Holiest day of the Jewish year (3,6) |
| KISLEV | Jewish month, falling within November and December, in which Hanukkah is observed (6) |
| CALIPH | Historically, the chief Muslim civil and religious ruler, regarded as the successor of Muhammad |
| SECTOR | District has second religious minister having got rid of the first (6) |
| TALMUD | Collection of writings constituting the Jewish civil and religious laws |