| SHROVETUESDAY | Pancake day in the Christian calendar of Lent (6,7) |
| SHROVE | Pancake Day in the Christian season of Lent, ... Tuesday |
| LADY | --- Day, in the Christian calendar, March 25; the feast of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary (4) |
| ASH | First day of Lent in the Christian calendar, ... Wednesday |
| TAD | End of the first decade in the Christian calendar |
| ALLSOULS | ___ Day, time of remembrance in the Christian calendar on November 2 (3,5) |
| EASTER | Which is the oldest and most important festival in the Christian calendar? (6) |
| FEASTS | In the Christian calendar Ash Wednesday, Ascension Day and Easter are all, like Hemingway's Paris, m |
| LENT | Religious observance in the Christian calendar that begins on Ash Wednesday, and which gives its name to a type of hellebore (4) |
| LADYDAY | March 25, in the Christian calendar |
| ADVENT | Period before Christmas in the Christian calendar |
| FRIDAY | In the Christian calendar, it's Good |
| IDES | Eighth day after the nones in the calendar of ancient Rome, falling on the 15th of March, May, July and October and the 13th of the other months (4) |
| LEMONSQUEEZER | Kitchen utensil kept busy on Pancake Day? (5,8) |
| TENAD | End of the first decade by the Christian calendar |
| YEAROFGRACE | Specified period of 365 days in the Christian era (4,2,5) |
| SEASON | Each one of the four divisions of a year defined by changes in the weather; or, the British annual calendar of social events including Royal Ascot, Wimbledon and Cowes Week (6) |
| ALMANAC | What is a calendar of the days of the year (7) |
| SAINTSDAY | Part of Christian calendar after all at beginning of November (6,3) |
| TUESDAY | Pancake day always falls on this day of the week |
