| BIMA | The platform in front of the synagogue's Ark (Hebrew) (4) |
| ORIGINALSCENE | A platform in front of Elsinore, in "Hamlet"? |
| AMIDAH | The synagogue's central 'Standing Prayer' (Hebrew) (6) |
| NERTAMID | The synagogue's 'Everlasting Light' (Hebrew) (3,5) |
| DECK | Decorate the platform, in the main, like a pack of cards (4) |
| ARKS | Cupboards in synagogues for law scrolls (4) |
| HOLDTHESTAGE | Have to stay on the platform in order to dominate the action (4,3,5) |
| TERM | Go around tea-party platform, in a manner of speaking (4) |
| STAGE | The platform in a theatre where the actors perform (5) |
| STAG | Platform in a theatre shortened for men only (4) |
| QUAY | Platform in harbour locker, we hear (4) |
| DAIS | A raised platform in a hall or room, used by speakers (4) |
| BEMA | Raised platform in a synagogue; beam (anag.) (4) |
| ODIUM | Head leaves the platform in resentment (5) |
| TISHRI | During the seventh month of the Jewish calendar, five rabbis left the synagogue on the outskirts of Redruth -- it was extraordinary! (6) |
| KOLNIDREI | An Aramaic declaration recited in the synagogue before the beginning of the evening service on every Yom Kippur |
| RABBITEARS | Those picking up signals there's evidence of wailing in the synagogue? (6,4) |
| LOGS | River-crossing platforms in Frogger |
| CANTOR | Leader of singing in the synagogue (6) |
| INHEARSE | Deposit in a coffin here in a ground around back of synagogues (8) |