| CERAMIST | Start of Christian period reportedly overlooked by one studying clay tablets? |
| LAPDANCER | Erotic performer's comeback reportedly overlooked by Hollywood police? |
| RELENT | Ease off religious education ahead of Christian period (6) |
| KNIGHT | Piece on board in dark period, reportedly (6) |
| SUMMARY | Synopsis suitable for a warm period, reportedly (7) |
| MIST | Reportedly overlooked the spray (4) |
| SEAL | Cylinder -; any one of a number of stamps carved in intaglio by the ancient Mesopotamians to make impressions on clay tablets (4) |
| TONGUETIED | Unable to say one note's overlooked by one duetting badly |
| RYDALWATER | Small Cumbrian lake overlooked by one of Wordsworth’s homes |
| MINOS | On March 23, 1900, Arthur Evans began his excavations of the palace ruins in Knossos on Crete, discovering some 3,000 clay tablets with inscriptions plus many other artefacts. What is the name of this |
| CRABAPPLE | Start of Christian parable reinterpreted to cover soft fruit? (4,5) |
| ACCENT | Mark - a book written about start of Christian church ... |
| SUNDAYMORNING | Start of Christian Sabbath will change and ruin my song (6,7) |
| IVANHOE | Front garden overlooked by one's work |
| SILENT | Is uplifted over Christian period of denial, like a Trappist (6) |
| BUTTERCUP | In pre-Christian period speak, well-informed, of wildflower (9) |
| IGUANODON | Large bipedal herbivorous dinosaur of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, reportedly discovered in Sussex in 1822 (9) |
| PANCAKEDAY | Another name for Shrove Tuesday, the last opportunity for a treat before the Christian period of Len |
| LENT | Christian period of abstinence |
| STELAE | Why don't we return and cut a bit of aspirin with ecstasy tablets? (6) |
