Clues for the word "APSE"
We've had 440 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 1672 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on April 14, 2025.
Definition of apse
- n. - A projecting part of a building, esp. of a church, having in the plan a polygonal or semicircular termination, and, most often, projecting from the east end. In early churches the Eastern apse was occupied by seats for the bishop and clergy.
- n. - The bishop's seat or throne, in ancient churches.
- n. - A reliquary, or case in which the relics of saints were kept.
Referring Clues
- Cathedral protuberance
- Church part
- Basilica section
- Semicircular room
- Church recess
- Church area
- Site of a bishop's seat in early churches
- Lady chapel locale
- Cathedral nook
- Church projection
- Polygonal recess
- Cathedral area
- Church niche
- Room off an ambulatory
- Vaulted church area
- Vaulted room
- Church alcove
- Stained glass locale, perhaps
- Nave neighbor
- Recess at St. Peter's
- Vaulted space
- Church nook
- Recessed area
- Domed recess
- Place for some icons
- Semicircular recess
- Stained-glass window site
- Altar site
- Far end of a church
- Side room
- Area next to an ambulatory
- Vaulted area, perhaps
- Architectural recess
- Vaulted recess
- Church section
- Basilica feature
- Basilica part
- Vaulted area
- Chapel part
- Basilica area
- Part of an abbey
- Abbey area
- Recess
- Niche at Notre Dame
- Altar area
- Cathedral recess
- Temple part
- Ecclesiastical setback?
- Architectural projection
- Area that may have stained glass
- Notre Dame niche
- Area with a curved wall
- Place for icons
- Religious statue locale
- Recess amid cheap seats (4)
- Place for prayer
- Vaulted area, often
- Recess at Notre Dame
- Semicircular building extension
- Half-dome construction
- Vault may finally collapse
- Cathedral room
- Semicircular part of a church
- Recess at St. Mary's?
- Choir nook
- Vaulted church recess
- Oratory recess
- Recess at church
- One end of a basilica
- Choir section
- Recess at Westminster Abbey
- Church space
- Area behind the choir
- Basilica recess
- Transept neighbor
- Cathedral part
- Altar enclosure, often
- Cathedral feature
- Rounded church area
- Altar spot
- Nook at Notre Dame
- Semicircular church section
- Semidome site
- Notre Dame recess
- Altar's locale
- ___ line (major axis of an elliptical orbit)
- Concha
- Bishop's seat in ancient churches
- It might be below a semidome
- Vaulted church part
- It's often vaulted
- Rounded end of a church
- Area under a semidome
- Recessed section
- Sanctuary section
- Gothic recess
- Section of St. Peter's
- ___ aisle (church part)
- Recess at church?
- Church area where mosaics are often found
- It adjoins the altar
- Place for an altar
- Holy recess
- Religious recess
- Choir neighbor
- Semicircular area
- Recess with a vault
- Where icons may be seen
- Cathedral section
- Church corner
- Church feature
- Altar end of a church
- A concha tops it
- Domed-roof building end
- Where the altar is
- Anagram for "peas"
- Polygonal church projection
- Area in an abbey
- Cathedral niche
- It may have stained-glass windows
- It abuts the bema, sometimes
- Semicircular church feature
- Place for an organ, sometimes
- Where you may find a vault
- Vaulted cathedral area
- Vaulted projection on a building
- Semicircular projection
- Projection in a church
- End of many sanctuaries
- Choir recess
- Spot for the masses?
- Vaulted church section
- It often adjoins the altar
- Altar locale
- Section under a concha
- View from a pew
- Area of a church
- Its glass may be stained
- Part of the church
- Arched recess
- Recess for the masses?
- Anagram for peas
- Altar's place
- Area behind an altar
- Chancel neighbor
- Area beyond the altar
- Cathedral protuberance, perhaps
- Domed church recess
- Semicircular sanctuary section
- Domed or vaulted recess
- Part of a church
- St. Patrick's section
- Choir recess, perhaps
- Part of a church, perhaps
- Vault location
- End of some sanctuaries
- Church's end
- Wing for a prayer?
- Inside recess
- Recess of a church
- Area near a chancel
- Where you may find vaults
- Basilica end
- Place for some relics
- Altar spot, perhaps
- Semicircular church area
- Chapel recess
- Oratory projection
- Cathedral section that sounds like iPhone programs
- Recess in church
- Place to pray
- Area near the altar
- Area that may have stained-glass windows
- It's behind the altar
- Cathedral projection
- Part of an abbey, perhaps
- Vaulted recess of a church
- Polygonal projection
- Vaulted cathedral part
- Altar neighbor
- Religious recession?
- Part of Notre Dame
- "Like a Prayer" video area
- Semicircular church part
- Cathedral site
- It may have a domed roof
- Niche
- Projection on a basilica
- Semicircular space
- Cathedral area near the ambulatory
- Area with a vault
- St. Peter's section
- Stained-glass window site, often
- Site for stained-glass windows
- Semidomed area
- Part of St. Paul's
- Vaulted alcove
- Semi-circular vaulted area
- Narthex neighbor
- Site of a religious retreat
- Religious mosaic locale
- Vaulted church wing
- Sunday recess?
- Rounded cathedral feature
- Recess near an altar
- Semicircular area in a church
- Place to see the face of Jesus, perhaps
- Vault site
- Places in an altar
- Domed church area
- Area behind a high altar
- Church site of a mosaic, often
- Vaulted altar area
- Rounded altar locale
- Where the clergy sit, in many churches
- Recessed section of a church
- Church foyer
- Projection for some kneelers
- Nave's neighbor
- Part of a church's interior
- Basilica niche
- Church's east end
- Curved recess
- Niche near a nave
- Abbey nook
- Altar place
- Semicircular church projection
- Vaulted nook
- Area of St. Peter's
- Part of a church, say
- It abuts the bema
- Site for a Jesus painting, perhaps
- Church's east end, typically
- Vaulted church structure
- Altar location
- Cathedral area adjacent to the transept
- View from a pew, maybe
- Church's recess
- Semicircular church recess
- Certain recess
- Spot with a vault
- Area under a concha
- Abbey recess
- Building projection
- Feature of many churches
- Religious recess?
- Place for a saint's image, maybe
- Abbey section
- Place for a vault
- Notre Dame's was finished in 1182
- Section with a semidome
- It has an altar
- Sanctuary recess
- Bema neighbor
- Vault locale
- Church section near the altar
- It's the altar end
- Basilica projection
- Where church aisles end
- Abbey alcove
- Edifice extension
- St. PaulÂ's recess
- Basilica center
- Recess at St. Paul's
- Quiet place to pray
- A vaulted recess
- Bema's neighbor, perhaps
- Sanctuary part
- Something that sticks out in a church?
- Church area with a semi-dome, perhaps
- Church section that may contain stained glass
- Semicircular part of a cathedral
- It contains an altar
- Alcove near the chancel
- Termination of a sanctuary
- It usually contains the altar
- Rounded section of a church
- Altar section of a church
- Church section close to the altar
- Indoor recess
- Notre Dame feature
- Cathedral organ site, perhaps
- Altar alcove
- Church area near the transept
- Church area behind an altar
- Stained glass setting
- Area at one end of a church
- Place for mass deliveries?
- Domed projection in a cathedral
- Concha, in architecture
- Site for a vault
- Vaulted part of a church
- Area behind the choir, perhaps
- Church area behind the altar
- Rounded church part
- Church's altar end
- Arched church area
- Part of a church building
- Recess in a church
- Semicircular area in a church building
- Seen in church when spring returns before Easter starts
- Primate set over south part of church
- East end of a church
- Peas (anag) - found in church
- Copy walls in southern part of church
- Part of church, perhaps eastern part
- Point primate out in church
- Part of church services pastor echoed inwardly
- In the church, a postscript to a note
- Some of the cheap seats in church
- Drop in standards scratching head in church
- Primate holds beginning of service in church
- Space for worshippers heading away from moral failure
- Where primate holds beginning of service?
- Processed peas found in church
- Semicircular section
- It may have an ornate vault
- Some cheap seats placed in recess
- Niche in church
- Recess in the cheap seats
- Primate embraces son in church
- A sitting? Nothing's cancelled - it's the recess
- Rounded end of building
- Slip without leader into recess
- Where the altar is usually found in a church
- Primate embraces son in church recess
- Mock taken around start of school recess
- Keys admit private secretary to part of church
- Ambulatory setting
- Vaulted section of a church
- Area beyond the 78-Across
- Part of church any parishioners should examine initially
- Recess at St. John the Divine
- Setting for many stained-glass windows
- Niche that might contain holy relics
- Niche form of architecture?
- Recess found among cheap seats
- Part of church to fall down (lower half)
- Primate seen around Sunday in church
- Recess at eastern end of a church
- Primate holding first of services in church recess
- Part of church any parishioners should examine at first
- Offshoot from the choir, nave or aisle in a church
- Part of church is fallen away in the middle
- Primate describing Saint in recess
- Son interrupts primate in church recess
- Primate drawing in small recess
- Primate burying Saint in recess of church
- Take off around start of summer recess
- Part of church a priest should enter first
- Imitate cradling Sybil's head in recess
- ___ aisle, part of a church
- Part of church, perhaps eastern section
- Recess under a dome
- Arcing recess
- Cathedral area with a half-dome, perhaps
- Semicircular recess also known as an exedra
- Semi-domed church area
- Feature of ecclesiastical architecture
- Primate going round southern part of church
- Recess opposite a narthex
- Domed recess in a building
- Mass-ive place?
- One spot for the masses?
- Place for a shrine
- Polygonal church part
- Catholic church structure
- Stained-glass window locale
- Mass recess?
- Altar's place, typically
- Recess in church design also known as an exedra
- End of a church
- Alcove
- An afterthought, note, in church
- Part of a chapel
- Basilica terminus
- Domed church part
- Chapel nook
- Religious setback?
- Area abutting a transept
- Primate embraces son in part of church
- Altar section
- Locale for a shrine
- Church part that sounds high-tech
- Semidomed church area
- Church part that sounds like what you might have on your smartphone
- Recessed area in a church
- Part of a church in a state of collapse
- Semi-circular recess in church architecture
- Architectural feature that's an anagram of "peas"
- Area with a half-dome
- High altar neighbor
- Sanctuary area
- Concha's place
- Domed or vaulted recess on a building
- Vaulted area of a house of worship
- Locale with a vaulted roof
- Neighbor of the nave
- Place for an icon in church
- Exedra
- Semicircular area in large churches
- Feature of Notre-Dame supported by flying buttresses
- Semicircular cathedral area
- The Church's part in a chap's education
- Locale of the Chair of Saint Peter in Saint Peter's Basilica
- Recess for prayer
- An area of a church
- Part of a church or cathedral
- Vaulted section in a church
- Cathedral alcove
- Word that sounds like a plural of 1-Down
- In church, is it partly collapsed?
- Location of the Chair of St. Peter within St. Peter's Basilica
- Place for a prayer
- Secluded place in a chapel
- Nook in a church
- Semicircular building recess
- Nook for a cardinal
- Church section behind the altar
- Mihrab : mosque :: ___ : church
- Part of a cathedral
- Partial new aspect of a church feature
- Domed recess of a church
- A large part of a church
- A wing for a prayer
- Element of ecclesiastical architecture
- Basilica alcove
- Recess on a Catholic school campus?
- Cardinal's wing?
- Where the chair of St. Peter sits in St. Peter's Basilica
- Place for a Lady chapel
- Architectural area whose name comes from the Greek for "vault"
- Pietà spot
- Semicircular recess in a cathedral
- Ambulatory access
- Focal point in a cathedral
- Church section with a domed roof
- Abbey space
- Quiet place in a church
- Part of the Hagia Sophia with a celebrated mosaic of Mary and child
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 14, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - March 31, 2025
- LA Times - March 26, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 17, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 15, 2025
- Daily American - March 12, 2025
- New York Times - March 12, 2025
- LA Times - March 11, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 09, 2025
- Family Time - March 02, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 26, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - February 19, 2025
- LA Times - February 17, 2025
- New York Times - January 27, 2025
- LA Times - January 23, 2025
- Daily American - January 19, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - January 15, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - January 15, 2025
- New York Times - January 15, 2025
- USA Today - January 13, 2025
- New York Times - January 12, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 04, 2025
- New York Times - January 03, 2025
- LA Times - December 29, 2024
- LA Times - December 28, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - December 27, 2024
- Daily American - December 23, 2024
- LA Times - December 22, 2024
- LA Times - December 12, 2024
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