PUZZLES

CROSSWORD No. 210

1 2 3 4 8 8 9 5

Compiled by Axe

6

7

Across

10 11 12 16 19 20 13 17 21 22 23 24 14 16 22 15 18

1 Book containing all the prayers and responses to celebrate the Mass (6) 4 Mother of Joseph and Benjamin (6) 8 Clerical gathering (5) 9 Pope, 235-36 (7) 10 Alexander -------, sixteenth-century Scottish Lutheran divine (7) 11 Pope, 913-14 (5)

12 One of 150 in the Old Testament (5) 14 Alternative name for biblical Zoan, one-time capital of Egypt (5)

19 East Jordanian state in the Bible whose capital was Rabbah (5)

21 Branch of Islam, the second largest part of the Shia community (7)

25 26 26

Crossword competition

Please send your answers to: Crossword Competition 22 May, The Tablet, 1 King Street Cloisters, Clifton Walk, London W6 0GY. Please include your full name, telephone number and email address, and a mailing address. A copy of the hardback Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus (second edition, RRP £30) will go to the sender of the first correct entry drawn at random on Friday 4 June.

●The answers to this week’s puzzles and the crossword winner’s name will appear in the 12 June issue.

23 Patriarch of Constantinople from 406, a saint in the Eastern Church (7) 24 Servant girl in Acts stunned to hear the voice of Peter (5)

25 Anglicised form of the word antiphon (6)

26 Woman from near Corinth: benefactor of the early Church (6)

Down

1 Place in the wilderness meaning “to test” (6)

2 According to Paul, they that are in “breach of natural law written in the conscience of man” (7)

3 Traditional founder of the Church at Edessa (5)

5 Port in Asia Minor used by Paul on his first mission (7)

6 Lot’s father (5) 7 Theoctiste of ------, ninth-century saint of the Eastern Church (6)

9 Bishop’s seat in ancient churches (4) 13 Oxford college named after the humanist founder of the Royal College of Physicians; teacher of Erasmus and More – and priest (7)

15 Spanish saint, Bishop of Seville from c. 600 (7)

16 One of the cities of the Decapolis (6) 17 Pope, one of 12 (4) 18 Acts of ------, apocryphal account of the trial, death and Resurrection of Christ (6) 20 Unaccompanied choral composition with sacred lyrics (5)

22 Aromatic resin burned as incense, forever associated with the Nativity (5)

Congratulations to Mr Alan Granger, of Warwick, winner of our 1 May crossword competition. His was the first correct entry drawn at random. He will be receiving a copy of the hardback Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus (second edition, RRP £30).

Solution to the 1 May crossword

Across: 1 Lamaism; 5 Elihu; 9 Siricius; 10 Malo; 11 Gezer; 12 Jehoash; 14 Talent; 16 Easter; 18 Abishai; 20 Nabal; 23 Rome; 24 In Orders; 25 Peter; 26 Adrian I. Down: 2 Amice; 3 Abilene; 4 Shia; 6 Limbo; 7 Holy See; 8 Essenes; 13 Attalia; 15 Ambrose; 17 Shaddai; 19 Syene; 21 Aaron; 22 Rood.

SUDOKU

Level: Moderate

Each 3 x 3 box, each row and each column must contain all the numbers 1 to 9.

Solution to the 1 May puzzle

22 May 2010 | THE TABLET | 21 Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36  |  Page 37  |  Page 38  |  Page 39  |  Page 40  |  Page 41  |  Page 42  |  Page 43  |  Page 44