| LAYREADERS | Heads of the congregation positioning Ray among the frontrunners (3,7) |
| RUBIO | One of the frontrunners for the Republican Party presidential nomination. (5) |
| BLACKSHEEP | Reprobate's back adopting Liberal member of the congregation (5,5) |
| WORSHIPPER | Row back to ship with each member of the congregation (10) |
| STRUGGLERS | They've hard time, heads of the Revenue forcing millions out of runners (10) |
| EQUESTRIAN | Request Brian to disqualify frontrunners of horse event (10) |
| WHEELIEBIN | When introducing frontrunners in election, Labour instils egalitarianism but I refuse to be taken in |
| PACEMAKERS | Frontrunners for medical devices? (10) |
| ORATORY | The Fathers of the -------, established by St Philip Neri, one of the congregations in the Roman Catholic Church (7) |
| NERI | Founder of the Congregation of the Oratory |
| NAVE | Some of the congregation aver it's part of the church (4) |
| EULOGIA | In the Eastern Christian Church, blessed bread distributed to members of the congregation after the liturgy |
| RABBI | Chatter without end with the leader of the congregation (5) |
| ELDER | An officer of the congregation is in the chapel, deranged (5) |
| LAXITY | Indiscipline of kiss stolen by members of the congregation |
| OUT | Going deep again: If the batter just whacked the baseball over the heads of the fans and it keeps on flying, he's hit it ___ of the park |
| LAYMAN | Bookie will do it at beginning of March to a new member of the congregation (6) |
| LACONIC | Saying little of the congregation admitting scam (7) |
| PEW | Where a member of the congregation sits |
| LAITY | Ordinary members of the congregation (5) |
