| WOEBEGONE | We pray about old person with dismal look |
| THEOMANIA | Articles about old person, one producing divine illusion |
| STOIC | Remain endlessly around old person with patience (5) |
| SOMBRE | The dismal look of the sombrero |
| VANDALISM | Destruction to vehicle with dismal assembly (9) |
| ODOUR | Video terminal with dismal quality (5) |
| CONFOUND | “Whoso beset him round / With dismal stories, / Do but themselves ____; / His strength the more is” (John Bunyan) |
| PLAYINGFAIR | Failing to pray about things? That's just acting! (7,4) |
| BEDBUG | It can ruin retirement so pray about developing bud (3,3) |
| HARPY | The last patriarch to pray about a greedy woman (5) |
| CHAPEL | Where to pray about games installed in rogue computer |
| PARSIMONY | Get Simon to pray about his stinginess! (9) |
| REALM | (OBC) "By thy grace translate us/To the - above, we pray "(5) |
| PEW | Where, in hope, we pray (3) |
| HOSANNA | Exclamation of praise to God derived from the Hebrew phrase 'save now, we pray' (7) |
| BREAD | We pray for a daily intake of this, even an British Soap opera (5) |
| EXPERIMENTATION | Old person, one with remark about a tense scientific procedure (15) |
| ALMOST | Approaching a Latin mass with old person like Patrick (6) |
| TROUT | Irritating old person, one with left-wing views, going round university |
| STAYER | Annoyed exclamation raised about the old person hanging on |
