PUZZLES CROSSWORD No. 235


1 7


2 2 1 3 2 4


3 8


6 10 9 11


Compiled by Enigma 4


4 5 7 6 Across


7 An ancient Egyptian gem in the form of a sacred beetle (6)


8 A small, dark falcon (6)


10 Having passed through Iconium, Paul and Barnabas arrived here (Acts 14:21-27) (7)


12 14


14 19 22


17 20 16 23 21 13 13 18 15 16


11 Indicates slow, dignified style in music (5)


12 Surname of Hergé, creator of Tintin (4) 13 Pope and martyr, c. AD 170 (5) 17 One who, in ancient Greece, had a status between slave and citizen (5) 18 World’s largest telescope, located in Hawaii (4)


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Crossword competition Please send your answers to: Crossword Competition 13 November, 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 bottle of wine courtesy of J. Chandler & Co. Ltd will go to the sender of the first correct entry drawn at random on Friday 26 November.


●The answers to this week’s puzzles and the crossword winner’s name will appear in the 4 December issue.


22 Type of setting in which Wilde’s Jack Worthing changed his Christian name (5) 23 Miss Oliver’s Christian name in Thurber’s story: Wonderful O (7)


24 Flemish geographer whose name was Latinised to Mercator (6)


25 Fourteenth-century English gold coin (6)


Down


1 Frederick Austerlitz was the original name of this famous dancer (1899-1987) (7) 2 Early form of jazz, associated with the piano (7)


3 Fifth-/sixth-century Welsh St Beoc is venerated under this name in Lough Derg (5)


4 The outer rim of a wheel, to which spokes are fixed (7)


5 Small town in Irish midlands, having a girl’s name (5)


6 Christian name of playwright whose childhood home town was Taganrog (5) 9 Meaning “God-Bearer”; title given to Our Lady in the Early Church (9) 14 The bride of the future Mayor of Casterbridge (Hardy) never suspected he would one day do this (4,3) 15 Small, brown, apple-like fruits (7) 16 Once called “The bread-basket of Russia” (7) 19 ----- horsepower; imperial unit equal to one horsepower (5) 20 Author of Crystal and Fox (1968) (5) 21 Country thought, in ancient times, to be the northernmost part of the world (5)


Congratulations to Mrs M. Milne, of Higher Compton, Plymouth, winner of our 23 October crossword competition. Hers was the first correct entry drawn at random. She will be receiving a copy of the hardback Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus (second edition, RRP £30).


Solution to the 23 October crossword


Across: 7 Syntax; 8 Adonis; 9 Pour; 10 Ramparts; 11 Horse’s mouth; 14 Round of golf; 18 Base camp; 20 Sari; 21 School; 22 Sorrow. Down:1 Pylon; 2 Stereo; 3 Expresso; 4 Warm; 5 Monaco; 6 Hittite; 12 Sign post; 13 Monarch; 15 Neeson; 16 Lasers; 17 Croon; 19 Ails.


SUDOKU Level: Hard


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


A long-established Catholic family firm of wine merchants specialising in the supply of Altar Wines to the Clergy and Convents


“SANCTANA” & “SANCTIFEX” Brands


J. CHANDLER & CO. LTD New Abbey House Fyfield Road, Weyhill Andover, Hants, SP11 8DN Tel: 01264 774700 Fax: 01264 774747


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Solution to the 23 October puzzle


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