### Clue: Widely accepted in time after vicar meets Capone in prison (9)
### Answer: PREVALENT 
 ### Explanation: Definition: Widely accepted
  T(abbrev. for time) **placed below**(after, in a down clue) [{REV(short for "reverend",member of the clergy, who could be a vicar) **plus**(meets) AL(Capone, Chicago gangster who spent time in the pen)} **contained in**(in) PEN(short for penitentiary,Americanism for prison)]