| VIADOLOROSA | Messiah's difficult passage or solo a diva botched |
| STRAPYOURSELFIN | Reversing roles (not mine, not indelicate), prepare for a difficult passage |
| ENTRY | A door, passage or other ingress affording a way in; an act of going onto a stage or into a building, competition or race; or, an item recorded in a diary, dictionary, ledger, list or log (5) |
| TRACE | Old word for a path or way taken; a footprint or other sign of passage; or, a side strap of a horse's harness (5) |
| AIR | Word for the invisible gaseous atmosphere surrounding our planet that is also used to describe a gentle breeze; a melodious tune or solo song; or, an assumed manner (3) |
| HEADING | Title of a chapter, page or paragraph; horizontal passage or drift into a mine; or, a curtain top (7) |
| FORTE | Italian for "loud, strong", thus for a loud musical passage; or, a strong point of a person or a sword (5) |
| AGES | Some difficult passages can take a long time (4) |
| EXCERPT | A passage or quotation taken or selected from a book or document. (7) |
| THROAT | Anatomical "red lane" containing a windpipe; an entity resembling said gullet in function or shape, such as a bottleneck, chimney, entrance/exit or other narrow passage; or, the voice (6) |
| DUCT | A bodily passage or tube conveying a secretion or other substance. |
| IST | Suffix with final or solo |
| OLOROSO | Sort of sherry, or solo that comes to nothing (7) |
| SUPERCOUPLE | Butler and O'Hara or Solo and Leia, for 2 |
| CARDGAME | Bridge or solo, eg (4,4) |
| LITTLESLAM | Messiah's heart in Mary's possession, almost missing a trick here? |
| GUNSHY | The Screaming Blue Messiahs' shooting term (3-3) |
| HAN | Solo of the upcoming "Solo: A Star Wars Story" |
| ALDEN | ___ Ehrenreich, Han Solo's portrayer in "Solo: A Star Wars Story" |
| TRANSIT | Passage or movement of goods or through a place (7) |
