| March fast? | 11 |
| Let use | 7 |
| Laetare Sunday occurs during it | 31 |
| It starts with Ash Wednesday | 28 |
| It starts on a Wednesday | 24 |
| It ends with Easter | 19 |
| It can start on leap day | 24 |
| Hot cross buns season | 21 |
| Hot cross bun time | 18 |
| Holy Week lead-up | 17 |
| Holy Week is a part of it | 25 |
| Holy season | 11 |
| Giving-up time | 14 |
| Gave temorarily | 15 |
| Gave credit? | 12 |
| Gave conditionally | 18 |
| Furnished for a time | 20 |
| Fronted, in a way | 17 |
| Forty-weekday period | 20 |
| Forty-day period | 16 |
| Forty days | 10 |
| Feb.16–Apr. 2 period in 1983 | 35 |
| Easter Triduum ends it | 22 |
| Easter forerunner | 17 |
| Did banking business | 20 |
| Did a banking job | 17 |
| Did a baker's job | 21 |
| Days of penitence | 17 |
| Contributed temporarily | 23 |
| Christian season | 16 |
| Christian equivalent of Muslims' Ramadan | 44 |
| Christian calendar period | 25 |
| Carnival's end | 18 |
| Austere time | 12 |
| Ash Wednesday-to-Easter time | 28 |
| Ash Wednesday-to-Easter observance | 34 |
| Ash Wednesday starts it | 23 |
| Ash Wednesday or Easter | 23 |
| Ash Wednesday begins it | 23 |
| Allowed to use | 14 |
| Advanced, as money | 18 |
| Advanced money | 14 |
| 40-weekday observance | 21 |
| "Ah, for the good old days," e.g. | 43 |
| Listened carefully | 18 |
| Was a sounding board | 20 |
| Pertaining to the pre-Easter period | 35 |
| Of the pre-Easter season | 24 |
| Suitable for Ash Wednesday | 26 |
| Pre-Easter | 10 |
| Of fast times? | 14 |
| Like the season before Easter | 29 |
| In fast time? | 13 |
| ___ season (fast time) | 22 |
| Somber or meager | 16 |
| Pre-Easter adjective | 20 |
| Pertaining to the weeks before Easter | 37 |
| Pertaining to a holy season | 27 |
| Penitential | 11 |
| Of the pre-Easter period | 24 |
| Of a spring season | 18 |
| Of a spring period | 18 |
| Of a season | 11 |
| Meager; somber | 14 |
| Meager; frugal | 14 |
| Like the pre-Easter season | 26 |
| Like the post-Mardi Gras period | 31 |
| Like some church services | 25 |
| Fast time descriptor | 20 |
| Adjective for Ash Wednesday | 27 |
| Soup bean | 9 |
| Soup legume | 11 |
| Soup choice | 11 |
| High-protein bean | 17 |
| Soup bit | 8 |
| Member of the legume family | 27 |
| Vegan's protein source, perhaps | 35 |
| Soup variety | 12 |
| Soup seed | 9 |
| High-protein seed | 17 |
| Soup ingredient, perhaps | 24 |
| Soup ingredient from a pod | 26 |
| Seed used to make dal | 21 |
| Salad bar tidbit | 16 |
| Protein-rich vegetarian soup | 28 |
| Popular soup legume | 19 |
| Old World plant | 15 |
| Navy bean alternative | 21 |
| Little disc-shaped legume | 25 |
| Legume used in the Indian dish dal | 34 |
| Dal thing | 9 |
| Campbell's variety | 22 |
| A pea or a bean | 15 |
| Soup veggies | 12 |
| Soup legumes | 12 |
| Some legumes | 12 |
| Soup beans | 10 |
| Legumes used in soup | 20 |
| Common Indian cooking ingredients | 33 |
| Tiny disc-shaped legumes | 24 |