Possible Clues:

• Offered up, having died repeatedly
• Tangerine-shaped
• In the end that's flat with dedication
• Earth is the best-known example of this type of spheroid
• (Of a spheroid) flattened at the poles
• A lay member of a monastic order - or a quality of a flattened sphere
• Like Earth
• One dedicated old boy no longer with us
• Religious devotee died but not in time
• Like earth, flattened at the poles