| PAPACY | Government at Vatican in the past paid 50% by currency without substance (6) |
| GRAPPA | Wine supplier's a bit short, paid 50% for the drink (6) |
| CONVINCE | Influence criminal at Vatican, in church (8) |
| STREAM | River Styx lost 50% by about morning (6) |
| FINICKY | Wi-Fi dropping 50% by prison yard in particular |
| KATERI | The first Indigenous person of North America to become a Saint, she was born in New York state ...and lived in the present-day Mohawk territory of Kahnawake (near Montreal) in the last years of her li |
| DESERT | (OBC) "Into the - I was led,/Where I fasted without substance" (6) |
| DINING | Row in government at table (6) |
| BUDGET | Move by government at last becoming economical (6) |
| OXYGEN | Steer Japanese currency without gravity or gas (6) |
| NEARLY | More or less, listener could follow nationalist lady without substance (6) |
| CYCLED | City on vacation, clued without substance as ordered (6) |
| GAMBIT | Ploy confines Government at first (6) |
| NOBODY | Lightweight without substance (6) |
| ATRANDOM | In source of cash, nothing sup-ports currency without a plan (2,6) |
| SISTINECHAPEL | What is the private chapel of the Vatican in Rome that was built for Pope Sixtus IV and decorated by |
| MINORORDERS | Ranks of church ministry such as "acolyte", renamed as "ministries" by the Vatican in 1972 |
| EXCHANGERATES | Unusual tax charge seen in values monitored by currency dealers (8,5) |
| WRITINGPAPER | Heard in court and in Government, at times it's what journalists are doing perhaps (7,5) |
| ANNOYING | Vexatious refusal adopted by some in Government at first (8) |
