| ALLTHETIME | Perpetually outside the convent in no hurry whatsoever (3,3,4,2,3,5) |
| STANHOPE | William Pitt the Younger's niece who gave up aristocratic life and travelled the Middle East dressed as a sheikh on her Arab stallion, settling in a ruined convent in the Lebanon Mountains (8) |
| NUNNERY | Religious home for women, such as the Convent of Santa Clara in the old town of Palma, Mallorca which was founded by the Franciscan order in 1256 (7) |
| NONNATUS | ____ House, fictional convent in Poplar where nuns work in the TV series Call the Midwife (8) |
| NUNS | Audrey Hepburn enters a Belgian convent in the 1959 drama, The ___ Story |
| STGALL | The Convent of ... ... in Switzerland was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1983 (2,4) |
| LAST | The ___ Supper a late 15th-century painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci which is housed in a convent in Milan Italy |
| CONVENES | Gathers in a lot of convents in the East (8) |
| ABBESS | Flipping crafty type on Elba replaces novice with bishop - the one in charge of the convent (6) |
| VEILED | Concealed in the convent (6) |
| PRIORITY | In the convent it gives preferential treatment |
| TABOO | In the convent a book is proscribed (5) |
| NUN | *Mother Superior is the head one at the convent |
| NOPRIORESSRECORD | Why the convent's head couldn't find information on the nun? |
| BUYINGHABITS | Consumer activity at the convent? |
| PRIOR | Previous head of the convent (5) |
| UNVEILS | Takes off the convent garb and reveals (7) |
| LOITERS | See the one having the odd rest is in no hurry (7) |
| DENEUVE | Catherine of 'The Convent' |
| ORDERPATROL | Security at the convent? |
