| BULLRING | Items associated with the Pope in the public arena |
| MUCKRAKER | One who seeks and exposes misconduct of others in the public arena |
| TACOS | Tex-Mex items associated with Tuesdays |
| COMMONGROUND | Public arena that facilitates a start to negotiations |
| QUEENOLANTERN | Item associated with the Headless Horseman |
| PORKPIE | Food item associated with the town of Melton Mowbray (4,3) |
| TIMELOCK | Strange item associated with the canal banks - secure mechanism that only opens for certain periods (4,4) |
| SISTINE | _ Chapel, the chapel of the Pope in the Vatican at Rome, famous for its Renaissance frescoes by Michelangelo and others (7) |
| SEE | Holy ?, diocese of the Pope in the Vatican (3) |
| HOLYSEE | Diocese of the Pope in the Vatican |
| PRYCE | He played one of the popes in The Two Popes |
| WASHINGTON | "You can be the lead in your own life." She played Olivia Pope in the television drama Scandal. |
| NEWSTYLE | Solar dating system, introduced by the Pope in 1582, using the Gregorian rather than the Julian calendar |
| UNIAT | Recognises the Pope in eastern Europe in third-level college at last (5) |
| VATICAN | The palace of the Pope in Rome (7) |
| CONCLAVE | An assembly of cardinals for the election of a Pope in the Roman Catholic church (8) |
| JKSIMMONS | He was Will Pope in The Closer. (1,1,7) |
| KERRY | Actress who plays Olivia Pope in the television drama Scandal, ___ Washington |
| LEONINE | Catty pope in the eleventh century? (7) |
| LEOV | Pope in the summer of 903 |
