| SECT | 45-Across, e.g. |
| SECT | A religious cult |
| SECT | Abbr. on a stadium ticket |
| SECT | Amish, e.g. |
| SECT | Amish, for one |
| SECT | Branch |
| SECT | Branch Davidians, e.g. |
| SECT | Branch group |
| SECT | Branch of a religion |
| SECT | Branch of a sort |
| SECT | Branch of religion |
| SECT | Breakaway branch |
| SECT | Breakaway group |
| SECT | Breakaway group, usually religious in nature |
| SECT | Breakaway religious group |
| SECT | Breakout group |
| SECT | Breakout group? |
| SECT | Broken-away group |
| SECT | Broken-off branch |
| SECT | Cainites, e.g. |
| SECT | Certain offshoot |
| SECT | Chip off the old flock? |
| SECT | Church branch |
| SECT | Church faction |
| SECT | Church group |
| SECT | Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, perhaps |
| SECT | Church offshoot |
| SECT | Clan group |
| SECT | Clan's cousin? |
| SECT | Clique |
| SECT | Cult |
| SECT | Cult ready to get caught |
| SECT | Denomination |
| SECT | Denomination offshoot |
| SECT | Dissected with group |
| SECT | Dissenting body |
| SECT | Dissenting denomination |
| SECT | Dissenting group |
| SECT | Dissenting religious group |
| SECT | Distinct branch of a religious group |
| SECT | Divergent doctrine developer |
| SECT | Division ready to get caught |
| SECT | Doctrinal faction |
| SECT | Doctrinal group |
| SECT | Dry time for group |
| SECT | Ecclesiastical spinoff |
| SECT | Ending with inter- |
| SECT | Faction |
| SECT | Faction in a group |
| SECT | Faction of a faith |
| SECT | Faction with faith |
| SECT | Faction within a faith |
| SECT | Faction within faction |
| SECT | Faith faction |
| SECT | Faithful faction |
| SECT | Faith-based breakaway |
| SECT | Fakirs, Quakers, or Shakers |
| SECT | Following |
| SECT | Formative religion |
| SECT | Friends, e.g. |
| SECT | Fringe group |
| SECT | Group gets caught in another |
| SECT | Group is ready to get caught |
| SECT | Group of people with different religious beliefs |
| SECT | Group of prayers |
| SECT | Group of prayers? |
| SECT | Group out of the mainstream |
| SECT | Group ready to get caught |
| SECT | Group ready to get century |
| SECT | Group ready with Charlie |
| SECT | Group resulting from a religious schism |
| SECT | Group within a group |
| SECT | Group within a large group (anagram of "cest") |
| SECT | Group within religious group |
| SECT | Hasidism, e.g. |
| SECT | It's broken off |
| SECT | It's smaller than a denomination |
| SECT | It's splintered |
| SECT | It's split |
| SECT | Kind of splinter group |
| SECT | Like-minded group |
| SECT | Lutheranism in 1521, e.g. |
| SECT | Mennonite subgroup |
| SECT | Mennonites, e.g. |
| SECT | Minority faction |
| SECT | Minority group |
| SECT | Namdhari, to Sikhism |
| SECT | Nazarenes, for one |
| SECT | Nazarenes, once |
| SECT | Niche religion |
| SECT | Nonmainstream group |
| SECT | Nonorthodox religious group |
| SECT | Not a mainstream religion |
| SECT | Offshoot |
| SECT | Offshoot denomination |
| SECT | Offshoot from a schism |
| SECT | Offshoot group |
| SECT | Offshoot of a denomination |
| SECT | Offshoot of a religion |
| SECT | Old Order Amish, e.g. |
| SECT | One may be Protestant |
| SECT | Ones who've split |
| SECT | Order, of a sort |
| SECT | Organizational offshoot |
| SECT | Part that's broken off |
| SECT | Pastafarianism or The Temple of the Jedi Order, for example |
| SECT | Pharisees, e.g. |
| SECT | Philosophical subgroup |
| SECT | Plymouth Brethren or the Shakers |
| SECT | Quakers or Shakers |
| SECT | Quakers, e.g. |
| SECT | Quakers, for one |
| SECT | Ready to accept Catholic group |
| SECT | Religion division |
| SECT | Religious branch |
| SECT | Religious cult |
| SECT | Religious denomination |
| SECT | Religious faction |
| SECT | Religious faction with slightly differing beliefs |
| SECT | Religious group |
| SECT | Religious offshoot |
| SECT | Religious offshoot group |
| SECT | Religious or political subgroup |
| SECT | Religious order |
| SECT | Religious spinoff |
| SECT | Religious spinoff group |
| SECT | Religious splinter group |
| SECT | Religious subdivision |
| SECT | Religious subgroup |
| SECT | Result of a religious schism |
| SECT | Result of a schism |
| SECT | Result of a split decision? |
| SECT | Schism group |
| SECT | Schismatic group |
| SECT | School of thought |
| SECT | Separatist movement |
| SECT | Shakers, but not movers |
| SECT | Shakers, e.g. |
| SECT | Shi'ites, e.g. |
| SECT | Shia or Sunni |
| SECT | Shia subdivision, e.g. |
| SECT | Shia, e.g. |
| SECT | Shiites or Amish |
| SECT | Shiites or Amish, e.g. |
| SECT | Shiites or Shakers, for example |
| SECT | Shiites or Sunnis |
| SECT | Side splitting? |
| SECT | Small branch |
| SECT | Small collection of prayers? |
| SECT | Small denomination |
| SECT | Small group of believers |
| SECT | Small party |
| SECT | Smallish branch |
| SECT | Spinoff group |
| SECT | Splinter group |
| SECT | Splinter group of a religion |
| SECT | Splinter group such as 14-Across |
| SECT | Split-off group |
| SECT | Split-off religious group |
| SECT | Subgroup |
| SECT | Subsidiary order |
| SECT | Sunni or Shia |
| SECT | Sunni or Shia, e.g. |
| SECT | Sunni or Shia, in Islam |
| SECT | Sunni, e.g. |
| SECT | Sunni, to Islam |
| SECT | Sunnis, e.g. |
| SECT | Sunnism, e.g. |
| SECT | Taoism's Lingbao or Quanzhen, for example |
| SECT | The Amish or Anabaptists, for example |
| SECT | The Amish, e.g. |
| SECT | The Amish, for example |
| SECT | The Amish, for one |
| SECT | The Dunkers or Shakers, e.g. |
| SECT | The Mennonites, e.g. |
| SECT | The Mennonites, for example |
| SECT | The Quakers, for one |
| SECT | The Shakers or the Amish, for example |
| SECT | The Shakers, e.g. |
| SECT | The Zealots, e.g. |
| SECT | The shakers, e.g. |
| SECT | Their ism causes schism |
| SECT | Theravada or Mahayana vis-à-vis Buddhism |
| SECT | They seem to believe otherwise |
| SECT | Ticket abbr. |
| SECT | Ticket stub abbr. |
| SECT | Topic in a world religions course |
| SECT | What Jehovah's Witnesses are sometimes considered, to Christianity |
| SECT | Yazidis, e.g. |
| SECT | Zealots' group, maybe |
| SECT | Zealots, for one |
| SECT | Zen Buddhism, e.g. |
| SECT | Zen Buddhists, e.g. |
| SECT | §, in a legal footnote: Abbr. |
| SECT | “The Joy of ___” (“The Simpsons” episode about a cult) |