| SEPTUAGESIMA | Name given to the third from last Sunday before Lent in the Catholic and Anglican churches |
| EMBERDAYS | Any of the four groups of three days of prayer and fasting in the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches (5,4) |
| QUINQUAGESIMA | Last Sunday before Lent (13) |
| SHROVETUESDAY | Pay before Lent in the Christian calendar (6, 7) |
| LADIESDAY | Colloquial name given to the third day of the Royal Ascot race meeting (6,3) |
| JUDITH | Book included in the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian Old Testament, but excluded by Jews and Protestants |
| GENEVIEVE | Patron saint of Paris in the Catholic and Orthodox traditions (9) |
| HYMNAL | In Anglican churches, this is often Ancient and Modern or New English |
| STIR | --- -up Sunday, the last Sunday before Advent, associated with the making of Christmas puddings (4) |
| AGNUSDEI | What is the Latin name of the prayer Lamb of God. a part of the mass in the Catholic, Anglican and Lutheran liturgies? (5,3) |
| MOTHERSDAY | Modern term for a celebration held on the fourth Sunday of Lent in the UK (7,3) |
| JOACHIM | The father of Mary, mother of Jesus, in the Roman Catholic, Orthodox and Anglican traditions (7) |
| ROMANCE | Story provided by Catholic and Anglican organisation (7) |
| HERBERT | George ---, Welsh-born poet and Anglican priest whose works were published in the 1633 collection The Temple (7) |
| SEXAGESIMA | The second Sunday before Lent (10) |
| MASS | A body of matter of indefinite shape / the ordinary people / in the Catholic church, the liturgy |
| ASPERGES | Rite of sprinkling holy water at the beginning of the Mass in the Catholic Church (8) |
| ANTEPENULTIMATE | Third from last stake produced by writer initially upstaging lieutenant and one friend (15) |
| ASH | First day of Lent in the Christian calendar, ... Wednesday |
| ULNAE | Bones are regularly lent in the United Arab Emirates (5) |
