Answer:

monks

Answer	Crossword Clue
MONKS	Brotherhood members
MONKS	Some hermits
MONKS	Abbey residents

MONKS	Abbey denizens
MONKS	Jazzman Thelonious and a TV detective
MONKS	Frock wearers
MONKS	Trappists, for instance
MONKS	Certain vow takers
MONKS	Cloister inhabitants
MONKS	Gregorian chanters
MONKS	Cowl wearers

MONKS	Some ascetics
MONKS	Religious recluses
MONKS	Monastery members
MONKS	Monastery residents
MONKS	Cloistered people
MONKS	Thomas Merton and others.
MONKS	Cistercians.
MONKS	Capuchins.

MONKS	Abbey dwellers.
MONKS	Friars
MONKS	Zoo creatures, for short
MONKS	Trappists
MONKS	Cenobites
MONKS	Thelonious and family
MONKS	Ascetics
MONKS	Monastery staff

MONKS	Order members
MONKS	Men in the hood?
MONKS	Some chanters
MONKS	They make up a chapter
MONKS	Some frock wearers
MONKS	Meredith and Thelonious
MONKS	St. Benedict's recruits
MONKS	Brotherhood brothers

MONKS	Some brothers
MONKS	Monastery figures