| ADDRESSEE | Tackle epistle, first and last, for recipient |
| LOTTERY | Random selection of conspirator, apart from first and last for today |
| PLASTIC | You don't separate your trash and so this stuff you use once only, and lasts for hundreds of years, clogs the landfill and too often lands on the beach. |
| PHILEMON | Classic letter bore fruit for recipient (8) |
| RELIEF | Luck now may come together for recipient of such aid |
| COMFORTER | Job for recipient of one's distressing attentions |
| MESSAGES | Communications sent to or left for recipients (8) |
| RECIPE | Set of instructions for recipients isn't deleted |
| LETTER | Word, from the Latin for "culture, epistle, learning, literature" and connected to "leather writing material", for any one of the alphabetic characters from A to Z (6) |
| MONEYISTHEROOTOFALLEVIL | "For the love of ____" is the correct version of a common quotation from the First Epistle to Timothy |
| AMEN | Last word of the Epistle to the Romans |
| ELITE | Epistle re-written without postscript -- it's for the best (5) |
| GRADUAL | Between the epistle and the gospel it proceeds by degrees (7) |
| HEBRIDEAN | Scripture lesson by cleric after epistle from Harris, for example |
| TOTHEBONE | Penetratingly sum up first chapter of Epistle to Hebrews? |
| EPHEBI | Young Greeks abbreviated first chapter of Epistle to Hebrews? |
| ROMANS | The first Epistle |
| ULTIMATE | Last short epistle used in uni-versity, after appropriate period (8) |
| LOVELETTER | Epistle for general readership (4,6) |
| HEBREWS | Old Testament epistle citing Abraham and Moses |
