| INES | Santa ___ (virgin martyr in the Italian Catholic Church) |
| LATIMER | One of the three Oxford Martyrs in the reign of Mary Tudor (7) |
| ARMS | Try leaving martyrs in the dump (4) |
| READIER | More prepared to become martyrs in the end (7) |
| URSULA | Christian martyr in whose honour Christopher Columbus named the Virgin Islands (6) |
| PETRONILLA | Virgin martyr who died at the end of the first century (10) |
| STAGNES | Virgin martyr and one of the Isles of Scilly (2,5) |
| ABEL | The first martyr, in Islam |
| AGNES | Virgin martyr gets on train finally coming in (5) |
| ALBAN | First Christian martyr in England |
| CECILIA | Virgin martyr, patron saint of music, killed c. AD 230 (7) |
| ATSTAKE | Where one might have observed a martyr in danger (2,5) |
| MARKWAHLBERG | Charlies Croker in The Italian Job, Tommy Saunders in Patriots Day, James Silva in Mile 22, Dusty in Daddy's Home and Eddie Adams in Boogie Nights are film roles played by this US actor (4,8) |
| VESTAL | In ancient Rome, one of the priestesses whose lives were dedicated to the goddess of the hearth, _ Virgin (6) |
| NICHOLADRIDLEY | Bishop of London who became one of the Oxford Martyrs in 1555 (8,6) |
| BANDONTHERUN | The best-selling studio album of 1974 in the UK, by Paul McCartney and Wings; a description of an active Fanfara dei Bersaglieri ensemble in the Italian army |
| MARSALA | Town in Trapani, Sicily, associated with the 1860 Expedition of the Thousand in the Italian Risorgimento (7) |
| VEILED | "The ___ Virgin": Strazza statue in Newfoundland |
| TURIN | First capital of Italy, birth place of solid chocolate and host of the 2006 Winter Olympics (it would have six letters in the Italian version of the name) (5) |
| SALERNO | Province in the Italian Campania region in which the Amalfi Coast is situated (7) |
