| HECTOR | Bully Vicar's hard to replace, right? (6) |
| CONFESS | Grants society to replace right to admit (7) |
| LUSTY | No longer strong, though left replaces right to become so here |
| COFFER | East replaces right in drink chest |
| ONTHEBRINK | Almost becoming broke when left replaces right |
| LEGACY | ____ software is old, but hard to replace owing to wide use |
| REPLENISH | Salesman Leonard is hard to replace |
| HOBBYHORSE | Toy mounted policeman, head knocked off, hard to replace? |
| CHINA | Hard to replace worker in a wine shop in the country (5) |
| UPREACH | Move to a higher place? For all to see, vicars often do it (7) |
| VANCOUVERISLAND | Victoria here, a nun, loved vicars to bits (9,6) |
| CURATES | Assistants to vicars, rectors or priests (7) |
| VICEVERSA | Vicars ordered to welcome the first lady opposite |
| VISCERA | Vicars prepared to acquire English organs (7) |
| ARCHPRIESTS | Vicars assigned to bishops in the Italian Church (11) |
| SWIVELCHAIR | Somewhere to sit while vicars worked (6-5) |
| DOGCOLLAR | Band of vicars good to make arrest outside (3,6) |
| WELLS | Constructed from 1348 to 1430, Vicars' Close in which English city is the oldest intact residential street in Europe? (5) |
| ADMINISTER | Manage a day with second of vicars in church (10) |
| REVEREND | Vicar's right and always on target (8) |