| LOTTIE | Moon, the Baptist missionary to China (1873-1912) |
| GLADYSAYLWARD | Missionary to China who inspired the film The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, starring Ingrid Bergman |
| OHIO | Home of the first man to walk on the moon, the first American to orbit Earth and the first American woman to walk in space |
| GRAHAM | Author of the Poldark novels set in Cornwall including The Black Moon, The Four Swans, The Miller's Dance and The Loving Cup (6) |
| SLESSOR | Mary ___, Scottish missionary to Nigeria, who gained the respect of the local people and helped to stop the practice of killing twins (7) |
| APPLES | "The silver ... of the moon, / The golden ... of the sun" (Yeats) |
| TAROT | Set of fortune-telling cards with suits swords, cups, coins and wands, and trumps including the Sun, the Moon, the Stars, the Chariot and Strength (5) |
| LUNA | Named after the Roman goddess of the moon, the ___ Cinema is the UK's leading open air cinema provider, screening A Star Is Born, Mamma Mia, Here We Go Again and Bohemian Rhapsody at Tatton Park this |
| OSAGE | "Killers of the Flower Moon: The ___ Murders and the Birth of the F.B.I." (nonfiction book adapted into a 2023 film) |
| CRESCENT | "I saw the _, you saw the whole of the moon", The Waterboys (8) |
| WHOLE | The ___ of the Moon, The Waterboys song (5) |
| STPAUL | Christian missionary to the Gentiles in the New Testament (2,4) |
| HUNTERS | ____ moon, the first full one in October after a harvest moon in the northern hemisphere (7) |
| NONES | Coinciding with the first quarter moon, the ninth day before the Ides (5) |
| KIDCUDI | Double-platinum Man on the Moon: The End of Day rapper |
| PAUL | A Christian missionary to the gentiles (4) |
| WALPURGA | English missionary to the Frankish Empire who was canonised on 1 May 870 by Pope Adrian II |
| NINIAN | Early Christian missionary to Scotland who the Episcopal cathedral in Perth is named after (6) |
| SELDOM | Once in a blue moon, the models go astray (6) |
| GRENFELL | Medical missionary to Nfld. and Labrador, late 19th c. |
