| SEXAGESIMA | Old word for the second Sunday before Lent (10) |
| BRAVO | Code word for the second letter of the alphabet in radio communications (5) |
| MOTHERHOOD | Institution celebrated on the second Sunday in May [closet pest] |
| SHROVETIDE | Old name for the three days before Lent |
| PALMSUNDAY | The Sunday before Easter (4,6) |
| SEPTUAGESIMA | Name given to the third from last Sunday before Lent in the Catholic and Anglican churches |
| PANCAKEDAY | A lot of make-up at the time, immediately before Lent (7,3) |
| QUINQUAGESIMA | Last Sunday before Lent (13) |
| MOTHERS | A celebration on the second Sunday in May for Australia and the US, but in March for the English, .. |
| PLAY | Games or exercise taken for recreation; a dramatic work for stage or screen; an old word for the activity of gambling; or, the courtship performance of animals (4) |
| HIMOM | Greeting often heard on the second Sunday in May |
| HONOREE | Mother, on the second Sunday in May |
| MOMS | Honorees on the second Sunday in May |
| MOM | Honoree on the second Sunday in May |
| FLITTER | Word linking with mouse for an old word for the flying mammal studied in chiropterology (7) |
| UPSTAIRS | Old word for the part of a large house occupied by its masters and mistresses as opposed to the servants' quarters in the basement (8) |
| DST | It starts the 2nd Sunday in Mar. |
| YULETIDE | Old word for the season of Christmas or, a red-flowered cultivar of the Camellia sasanqua (8) |
| PATE | An old word for the head that, with the addition of two accents, describes forcemeat, rillettes or terrine (4) |
| VISNOMY | Old word for the art of judging human character from the phiz, aka face (7) |
