| BELL | Instrument traditionally used to mark time on a ship or to call a congregation to its church (4) |
| AHOY | Nautical hail used to call a ship or to attract attention (4) |
| BUGLE | Instrument traditionally used to sound the Last Post; war veteran, Bill Osborne, 92, honours the fallen every Remembrance Day with a performance in the garden of his Ellesmere Port home (5) |
| TITHEBARN | Building in which the agricultural contribution of a parish to its church was formerly stored (5,4) |
| SEATINGSTRANGLE | Dinner times on a ship / Garrote |
| HI | Expression of greeting or to call attention |
| BEAT | Related to the name of a heavy mallet for striking blows, a word meaning to flog, hammer or thwack repeatedly; conquer or trounce; rhythmically drum; mark time with a baton; or, pulsate, as in the hea |
| WAIT | To mark time has importance, we hear (4) |
| PEWS | Long benches for members of a congregation or choir in a church; or, an informal word for seats (4) |
| AXIS | A cross is used to mark a line of a planet's rotation |
| FOLD | Congregation to collapse (4) |
| OBOE | Slender double reed woodwind instrument traditionally made from African blackwood (4) |
| BUOY | Float used to mark channels |
| BOLLARD | A quay- or wharf-side post on which to secure a ship's mooring rope; or, a reflective device used to mark a traffic island (7) |
| AMEN | How a congregation might respond to a pastor |
| RISE | Directive to a congregation before a hymn, with "all" |
| IMAM | Setter is morning person who leads a congregation (4) |
| CLAP | Mark time, in a way |
| ALPHORN | Used as a national symbol of Switzerland, a wooden wind instrument traditionally used by shepherds i |
| NAVE | Where a congregation congregates |
