| GRANADILLA | Plant of the passion flower oenus such as the Sweet - or Giant - (10) |
| PASSIFLORA | The passion flower genus of plants |
| SWANOFAVON | Playwright William Shakespeare was hailed by Ben Johnson as the 'Sweet ...!' (4,2,4) |
| CAREFULNOW | What does Father Dougal's placard at his protest against The Passion of Saint Tibulus say? (7,3) |
| GRENADILLA | Laid up in Caribbean island? It's the passion fruit! |
| NOLOVELOST | Presumably still has the passion for bad blood (2,4,4) |
| MELGIBSON | American actor and director of 1995 blockbuster movie Braveheart and director of The Passion Of The Christ (2004) |
| VETCHLING | limbing plant such as the sweet pea (9)Tendril-c |
| STIGMA | Mark of The Passion of the Christ? |
| CHESTNUT | Tree such as the sweet ..., Castanea sativa, that produces nuts in a prickly bur (8) |
| SUPERSTAR | Rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, loosely based on the Gospels' accounts of the Passion (5,6,9) |
| JESUSCHRIST | Rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, loosely based on the Gospels' accounts of the Passion (5,6,9) |
| DAVIDHUME | Scottish philosopher, whose A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40)'Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions' (5,4) |
| MORTIFICATION | Subjection of the passions by penance or abstinence (13) |
| HUME | "Reason is ... the slave of the passions" writer |
| OARFISH | Elongated marine fish such as the king of herrings or giant ? |
| FOXGLOVE | Perplex foremost of gardeners, appearing with passion flower (8) |
| PANE | Passion flower vine on the borders clearly needs to be looked through (4) |
| GIBSON | Mel _, director of the films Apocalypto and The Passion of the Christ (6) |
| TRIFLING | Making the sweet or just wasting time? |
