| POPEMOBILE | Vehicle with Vatican City registration plates |
| IDAHO | US state with "Famous Potatoes" on its vehicle registration plates |
| FATIMA | Which Portuguese village is associated with "Vatican secrets"? (6) |
| AGGIORNAMENTO | Italian term for "bringing up to date", associated with Vatican II |
| GUERNSEY | Channel Island noted for dairy cattle, traditional jumpers and creamy milk, where post and telephone boxes are blue and car registration plates are black (8) |
| ROME | Capital city that surrounds Vatican City |
| URBAN | Designation for heads of Vatican City, or of any city |
| VICAR | Priest from Vatican City in charge with a rector (5) |
| ROMANCATHOLIC | Christian denomination with headquarters in Vatican City (5,8) |
| SISTINE | This chapel with Michelangelo's frescoes is found in the Apostolic Palace in Rome's Vatican City |
| SMALLCAPITALS | Little characters from Vatican City and City of San Marino, for example (5,8) |
| TREATY | see 24ac, 1929 agreement by which the papacy recognised the state of Italy, with Rome as its capital, and Italy in return recognised papal sovereignty over the Vatican City |
| ENCLAVE | Husband's off from here with ladies, say, in Vatican City? (7) |
| AVVOGADORE | Italian official lived years around Vatican City with own goal to worship |
| LATERAN | and 31ac, 1929 agreement by which the papacy recognised the state of Italy, with Rome as its capital, and Italy in return recognised papal sovereignty over the Vatican City |
| TUVALU | With fewer than 11,000 people, the world's second-least-populous country, after Vatican City |
| ZERO | Birth rate of Vatican City |
| LIRA | Former Vatican City currency |
| ACRE | One of 108 composing Vatican City |
| PIETA | Renaissance statue now on display in Vatican City |
