| NICODEMUS | Pharisee who helped prepare Christ's body for burial after the crucifixion |
| POLEVAULT | Place for burial after terminal event? (4,5) |
| EMBALM | Prepare (a body) for burial |
| ARIMATHEA | New Testament character who asked Pontius Pilate for Christ's body in order to prepare it for burial (6,2,9) |
| JOSEPHOF | New Testament character who asked Pontius Pilate for Christ's body in order to prepare it for burial (6,2,9) |
| HOLYSEPULCHRE | In the New Testament, the tomb in which the body of Christ was laid after the Crucifixion (4,9) |
| PIETA | A representation of Mary in sculpture or painting grieving over the body of Jesus after the crucifixion |
| STIGMATA | Marks corresponding to those left on Christ's body after crucifixion (8) |
| PRIVILEGE | Pharisee admitting ignoble end for gentile is right (9) |
| SOMERSAULT | Turn over a certain Pharisee after right time (10) |
| ALPHA | First letter to the Corinthians penned by heretical Pharisee? (5) |
| PROPHETS | Proclaimers of the will of God spot her unusually without Pharisee leader (8) |
| SADDUCEES | Jewish sect of ancient Israel that denied the supernatural (angels, the resurrection etc.) unlike the rival Pharisees (9) |
| EPHA | Hebrew measure brought in by the Pharisees |
| SADDUCEE | Member of an ancient Jewish sect opposed to the Pharisees (8) |
| ARISE | Spring gave heart to the Pharisees (5) |
| STYX | The dead moved here remain without a marker for burial place |
| SHROUD | Cloth in which a body is wrapped for burial (6) |
| INTERNMENT | Shutting of somebody away for burial around the North (10) |
| EMBALMED | Preserved or prepared for burial, as a body (8) |
