| CREEDS | Christianity began on rushes like other religions (6) |
| JUNKET | A rush fish-basket; rennet custard or cream cheese, originally laid on rushes or made in such a creel; or, a banquet, beano, business trip, feast, picnic, politician's tour or other jaunt (6) |
| STORMS | Rushes, like a castle |
| STAMPEDES | Rushes like panicking cattle |
| SCRAMBLES | Cut scene goes on rushes |
| SCREWY | Nuts like other fasteners? (6) |
| ADULTS | Al! You're in the dust! Be like other grown-ups (6) |
| CHEESY | Inferior, like others on the board? |
| DINERS | Communists in, out to lunch, like others eat out? (6) |
| OPENED | Began on Broadway |
| TEMPLE | A building for religious worship, especially in religions other than Christianity (6) |
| INDIANMUTINY | Major uprising of sepoys in the garrison town of Meerut which began on 10th May 1857 (6,6) |
| AZRAEL | In Islam and other Abrahamic religions, the angel who severs the soul from the body at death (6) |
| CLERGY | Officials of religions (6) |
| SHINTO | Which term designates the native religions of Japan (6) |
| DHARMA | Moral code in Indian religions (6) |
| OMNISM | The recognition and respect of all religions (6) |
| ASHRAM | Spiritual hermitage or a monastery in Indian religions (6) |
| TREEHUGGERS | Environmentalists like other solutions that are on the level? (4-7) |
| NOVARUPTA | Volcanic vent and lava dome in southern Alaska, U.S., within Katmai National Park and Preserve. Its violent eruption in 1912, which began on June 6 and lasted 60 hours, is considered the largest volca |
