| SHROVETUESDAY | Pay before Lent in the Christian calendar (6, 7) |
| ASH | First day of Lent in the Christian calendar, ... Wednesday |
| SEPTUAGESIMA | Name given to the third from last Sunday before Lent in the Catholic and Anglican churches |
| LADY | --- Day, in the Christian calendar, March 25; the feast of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary (4) |
| EASTER | Which is the oldest and most important festival in the Christian calendar? (6) |
| TAD | End of the first decade in the Christian calendar |
| ADVENT | Period before Christmas in the Christian calendar |
| TABLEFOOTBALL | Propose to pay before party game (5,8) |
| LADYDAY | March 25, in the Christian calendar |
| FRIDAY | In the Christian calendar, it's Good |
| ALLSOULS | ___ Day, time of remembrance in the Christian calendar on November 2 (3,5) |
| 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) |
| QUINQUAGESIMA | Last Sunday before Lent (13) |
| MOTHERSDAY | Modern term for a celebration held on the fourth Sunday of Lent in the UK (7,3) |
| TENAD | End of the first decade by the Christian calendar |
| ULNAE | Bones are regularly lent in the United Arab Emirates (5) |
| JULIAN | Calendar widely used in the West before the introduction of the Gregorian calendar (6) |
| KISLEV | The third month of the civil year in the Hebrew calendar (6) |
| TISHRI | The first month of the civil year in the Hebrew calendar (6) |
