| Fat Tuesday follower | 20 |
| Fasting time | 12 |
| Fast season | 11 |
| Fast forty? | 11 |
| Easter precursor | 16 |
| Ash Wednesday to Easter | 23 |
| Afforded | 8 |
| 40-day period of penitence | 26 |
| Shrovetide follower | 19 |
| Pre-Easter observance | 21 |
| Pre-Easter fasting period | 25 |
| Period of abstinence | 20 |
| Given for a time | 16 |
| Catholic observance | 19 |
| Ash Wednesday's season | 26 |
| Allowed to use for a while | 26 |
| Time of sacrifice | 17 |
| Time of abstinence | 18 |
| Time for hot cross buns | 23 |
| Spring fast | 11 |
| Solemn stretch | 14 |
| Shrove Tuesday follower | 23 |
| Season of penitence | 19 |
| Quitting time? | 14 |
| Quadragesimal period | 20 |
| Post-Mardi Gras observance | 26 |
| Period beginning on Ash Wednesday | 33 |
| Period beginning Ash Wednesday | 30 |
| Period after Shrove Tuesday | 27 |
| Penitential season | 18 |
| Penitence period | 16 |
| Maundy Thursday period | 22 |
| Lead-in to Easter | 17 |
| It may begin in February | 24 |
| It follows Shrovetide | 21 |
| It follows Shrove Tuesday | 25 |
| It follows Mardi Gras | 21 |
| Ignored Polonius' advice | 28 |
| Holy Week's period | 22 |
| Gave for a bit | 14 |
| Easter's predecessor | 24 |
| Easter preparation | 18 |
| Easter predecessor | 18 |
| Church season | 13 |
| Christian equivalent of Ramadan | 31 |
| Catholic season of self denial | 30 |
| Ash Wednesday kicks it off | 26 |
| 40-day observance | 17 |
| When Quadragesima Sunday comes | 30 |
| When Quadragesima occurs | 24 |
| When Passion Sunday falls | 25 |
| When hot cross buns are eaten | 29 |
| When Good Friday occurs | 23 |
| Traditional time for hot cross buns | 35 |
| Time to repent and fast | 23 |
| Time to give things up | 22 |
| Time to give something up | 25 |
| Time to give it up? | 19 |
| Time to abstain | 15 |
| Time of penitence | 17 |
| Time of forbearance | 19 |
| Time of austerity | 17 |
| Time for fasting | 16 |
| This may seem slow when you fast | 32 |
| The 40 weekdays leading up to Easter | 36 |
| Temporarily gone | 16 |
| Steve Poltz "Give You Up for ___" | 43 |
| Springtime event | 16 |
| Spring stretch | 14 |
| Spring season | 13 |
| Spring break, in a way | 22 |
| Solemn time | 11 |
| Solemn period | 13 |
| Season preceding Easter | 23 |
| Season of repentance | 20 |
| Season of fasting | 17 |
| Season of abstinence | 20 |
| Relinquishing time | 18 |
| Religious season | 16 |
| Ramadan equivalent | 18 |
| Provided, as credibility | 24 |
| Provided temporarily | 20 |
| Provided for a time | 19 |
| Provided for a spell | 20 |
| Precedes Easter | 15 |
| Pre-Pasch period | 16 |
| Pre-Easter fast period | 22 |
| Post-Carnival time | 18 |
| Post-Carnival period | 20 |
| Period of deprivation | 21 |
| Period of 40 weekdays | 21 |
| Passiontide's time | 22 |
| Passiontide's period | 24 |
| Passiontide time | 16 |
| Passion Sunday occurs during it | 31 |
| Pasch period | 12 |
| Pancake Day is the day before this begins | 41 |
| Nearly six-week period | 22 |
| Mardi Gras's follower | 25 |
| Mardi Gras aftermath | 20 |