| GOLGOTHA | Place of Crucifixion |
| TIBERIUS | Emperor at time of Crucifixion |
| STIGMATA | Christ's marks of crucifixion |
| STAINES | Depicter of Crucifixion's run out into town |
| WAYOFTHECROSS | The journey of Jesus to the place of his crucifixion (3,2,3,5) |
| 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 |
| CALVARY | Place of Jesus' crucifixion (7) |
| PIETA | A representation of Mary in sculpture or painting grieving over the body of Jesus after the crucifixion |
| PILATE | Roman procurator of Judaea who authorised the crucifixion of Jesus (7,6) |
| PONTIUS | Roman procurator of Judaea who authorised the crucifixion of Jesus (7,6) |
| ARIMATHEA | Joseph of - - -, in the New Testament a wealthy Jewish man who buried the body of Jesus Christ after the crucifixion (9) |
| CYRENE | Simon of _ _ _ _ _ _ , man compelled to carry the cross of Jesus before the crucifixion (6) |
| RENI | Painter of the "Crucifixion of St. Peter" in the Vatican |
| GOLDFINCH | Thistle-eating bird with a red face supposedly coloured by the blood of Jesus, hence symbolising Christ's crucifixion and its depiction in many religious Italian Renaissance paintings of the Madonna a |
| VIADOLOROSA | Route followed by Christ from the place of his condemnation to his crucifixion at Calvary (3,8) |
| PONTIUSPILATE | Roman procurator of Judaea who ordered the crucifixion of Jesus (7,6) |
| PASSIONPLAY | Dramatization of Jesus' crucifixion |
| ECCE | --- homo, words of Pilate before the Crucifixion |
| PLEXUS | Novel by Henry Miller that is Book Two of 'The Rosy Crucifixion' (6) |
| INRI | Inscription placed over the head of Christ during the Crucifixion (4) |
