| MENES | Pharaoh who founded the first dynasty of Egypt and is believed to have introduced the ritual of god |
| AMENHOTEP | ___ I, is reputed to be the Egyptian pharaoh who founded the tomb workers' village at Deir el-Medina (9) |
| DIONYSIUS | Scythian scholar, believed to have introduced the "BC/AD" dating system (9) |
| DEN | Pharaoh of the First Dynasty of Egypt whose mother was believed to be Merneith (3) |
| RAMSESI | Pharaoh who founded Egypt's 19th dynasty |
| WARWICK | Frank ___, said to have introduced fluoro hookbaits to carp fishing (7) |
| YESTERDAY | Too wise, we hear, to have introduced dearest plan in the past (9) |
| WOBURN | - Abbey; surrounded by deer park landscaped by Humphry Repton, seat of the Dukes of Bedford, once home to Duchess Anna Maria who popularised the ritual of afternoon tea (6) |
| RACHTZA | The ritual of washing of the hands at The Seder (Hebrew) (7) |
| INITIATION | The ritual of admitting a new member into a society or group in an often secret ceremony of the same name; or, any act of beginning (10) |
| TASHLICH | The ritual of casting away of sins in flowing water during the High Holy Days (Hebrew) (8) |
| HARRYRAMSDEN | Yorkshire businessman who founded the first in a chain of fish and chips stores in 1928 (5,7) |
| SUMOWRESTLING | In which sport do participants perform the ritual of throwing salt on the floor before a match? (4,9) |
| DUBS | Invests with a knighthood by the ritual of tapping on the shoulder with a sword (4) |
| LEVISTRAUSS | German-born US businessman who founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans (4,7) |
| AVIS | Warren, U.S. businessman who founded the first car rental company to be based at an airport (4) |
| STRAUSS | Levi, German-born businessman who founded the first company to make blue jeans (7) |
| HOLLY | Once used by boys and men of Tenby, Wales, to whip unsuspecting girls on Boxing Day in a courting ritual of "holming", a plant with prickly leaves evocative of Christ's crown of thorns at the Crucifix |
| BURIAL | The ritual of placing of a corpse in a grave (6) |
| REIMANN | In 1883 who, with Cecil Sharp, founded the first Australian college of music, the Adelaide College o |
