| ENCLAVE | Vatican City, vis-A -vis Rome |
| PILLAGER | Visigoth vis-a-vis Rome |
| EPONYM | Romulus, vis-a-vis Rome, e.g. |
| ACRE | About a hundredth of Vatican City |
| ROME | Capital city that surrounds Vatican City |
| URBAN | Designation for heads of Vatican City, or of any city |
| LATIN | Language of ancient Rome and today's Vatican City |
| VICAR | Priest from Vatican City in charge with a rector (5) |
| STPETERS | Stop on a Vatican City tour |
| VANITY | A deadly sin to take prickly plants from Vatican City |
| 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 |
| BELIEVERS | Disciples make up a story at Vatican City between drinks (9) |
| KINSHASA | Capital about 22 miles from Brazzaville, making them the second-closest pair of world capitals (behind Vatican City and Rome) |
| BASILICA | St Peter's in Vatican City is a noted example (8) |
| 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 |
| NOVELLA | Perhaps A Christmas Carol of its time engrossing leader of Vatican City (7) |
| ZERO | Birth rate of Vatican City |
| LIRA | Former Vatican City currency |
