| CALVARY | Place of Jesus' crucifixion (7) |
| PONTIUS | Roman governor of Iudaea at the time of Jesus' crucifixion, ... Pilate |
| CHRISTS | -- -thorn (shrub supposedly forming Jesus' crucifixion crown) |
| PASSIONPLAY | Dramatization of Jesus' crucifixion |
| GOLGOTHA | Site of Jesus' crucifixion |
| PONTIUSPILATE | Roman official who authorised Jesus' crucifixion (7,6) |
| STATION | One of 14 images depicting Jesus Christ on the day of his crucifixion, at which the faithful say prayers (7) |
| PASSION | Name given to the sufferings of Christ leading up to his crucifixion (7) |
| STAINER | Painter who produced "The Crucifixion" (7) |
| STAINES | Depicter of Crucifixion's run out into town |
| KILLING | Crucifixion |
| TORTURE | Crucifixion |
| THEROBE | 1942 novel by Lloyd C Douglas about the Crucifixion (3,4) |
| PILATE | Roman procurator of Judaea who authorised the crucifixion of Jesus (7,6) |
| WAYOFTHECROSS | The journey of Jesus to the place of his crucifixion (3,2,3,5) |
| PIETA | A representation of Mary in sculpture or painting grieving over the body of Jesus after the crucifixion |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
