| MOTET | Short choral composition traditionally set to Scriptural text and intended for church use; from Old French, 'little word' (5) |
| PSALTER | Book for church use |
| BALLAD | Poem that tells a story and was traditionally set to music (6) |
| ODE | Tribute traditionally set to music |
| SCHOLAR | Short choral composition by academic (7) |
| MESSIAH | 1742 oratorio by German-born English composer George Frideric Handel to a scriptural text by Charles Jennens (7) |
| NOTATION | Country safeguards scriptural text with symbolic system (8) |
| EXEGETE | Once, say Centre often picked interpreter of scriptural text (7) |
| JELLY | Pudding traditionally set in a cooking mould or used for recipes including English trifle, some types of Charlotte royale, jaffa cakes and fruit tartlets (5) |
| SHEAF | Bundle of unthreshed grain stalks tied together after reaping, traditionally set upright with others to form a stook (5) |
| LEED | ____ standards are specified by a certification program developed in the U.S. and intended to encourage sustainable practices in building design and development (4) |
| GIBE | An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect. |
| BARB | An aggressive remark directed at a person and intended to have a telling effect (4) |
| BLANDISHMENT | Flattery may be sort of tasteless, and intended to be heard (12) |
| AGREEMENT | Terribly eager and intended, it's said, to get contract (9) |
| BRASSIERE | Before it became shortened to bra, this was the word in use from 1909 to describe a ladies support g |
| FLEET | A London river, which gave its name to a city prison that was in use from the 12th to 19th centuries (5) |
| SPATE | _ _ _ _ _ indication - in use from the early 1980s to indicate temporary speed restriction (5) |
| MORSE | International telegraph code in use from the 19th to 20th centuries (5) |
| CLAYMORE | Double-edged Scottish broadsword in use from 15th to 17th centuries (8) |
