| CROSIER | Staff surmounted by a crook or cross carried by bishops as a symbol of pastoral office. (7) |
| MITER | A tall deeply-cleft headdress worn by bishops as a symbol of office |
| MITRE | A tall deeply-cleft headdress worn by bishops as a symbol of office |
| UNBISHOP | Remove from office one whose staff's headed by a crook |
| BOXER | Cross carried by historical enemy fighter |
| NELUMBOS | Black cross carried by boy picking up lotus flowers (8) |
| EPISCOPACY | Government by bishops, as in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches (10) |
| TWISTER | Another name for a tornado; an informal word for a crook or a swindler; or, a party game (7) |
| STEEPLE | Structure surmounted by a spire (7) |
| DAPHNIS | Sicilian shepherd of Greek myth, said to be the founder of pastoral, or bucolic, poetry (7) |
| OUTLAWS | Crooks or disorderly louts having a point (7) |
| RELIEVE | Discharge rector replacing bishop as head of trust (7) |
| ORB | Globe (globus) surmounted by a cross (cruciger), used as a symbol of royal power and adopted by Harris Tweed as its certification mark (3) |
| DEBASED | Shamed bishop, as specified in legal document (7) |
| ARCADIA | Place of pastoral simplicity (7) |
| DIOCESE | Bishop's area of pastoral care (7) |
| SCREEN | An ornamental partition separating a church's choir from its nave and surmounted by a rood; a sheltering row of pleached trees; or, a large riddle or sieve (6) |
| BAUBLE | What mock sceptre carried by a court jester consisted of a stick surmounted by a head with ears of an ass? (6) |
| TUNICLE | Ecclesiastical, long-sleeved outer garment worn by bishops and subdeacons (7) |
| GAITERS | It's gear possibly worn by bishops (7) |
