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Crossword competition Please send your answers to: Crossword Competition 29 January, 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 11 February.


●The answers to this week’s puzzles and the crossword winner’s name will appear in the 19 February issue.


Solution to the 8 January crossword


Across: 7 Omerta; 8 Zeugma; 10 Warthog; 11 Soter; 12 Celt; 13 Amman; 17 Derma; 18 Coir; 22 Hongi; 23 Oxidize; 24 Etenim; 25 Claret. Down:1 Norwich; 2 Petrels; 3 Itchy; 4 Hessian; 5 Agate; 6 Mamre; 9 Agamemnon; 14 Medicis; 15 Topiary; 16 Priests; 19 Shoes; 20 Under; 21 Field.


20 15 10 9 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 8


Compiled by Enigma 4


5 5 6 6 Across


7 The Church, backed by headquarters, shows its metal (6)


8 Write a story and put your foot in it (6) 9 Twice declared to be a goddess (4) 10 This country contributes nothing to Britain’s leadership (8)


11 14 16 18 12 15 18 17


11 Float Smith Oil on the Paris stock market in the name of religion (11)


14 The soul uses 50 units of electricity for light, but these would use none (6,5) 18 Gosh, cook, she’s the one with two nasty sisters! (8)


20 Connect with a singular golf course (4) 21 It shines from heavenly clothing (6) 22 If it had started loudly, the telling-off would have been terrifying (6)


Down


1 This allows Her Majesty to go where she pleases, but not by the horse’s route (5) 2 Shot Pa in steamy surroundings (3,3) 3 It’s at the seaside for a change (5,3) 4 Unpleasant conditions for the head of languages who becomes involved in maths (4)


5 Put most of the rice on the cooker to prepare part of the mushroom (6) 6 Approve the Londoner’s decision to do away with the animal (7)


12 Break the seal round a keg, causing more than one spill (8) 13 Grows if one put 1 points for liquid (7)


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15 They provide entertainment, but nobody watches it (6)


16 See a friend attempt something trivial (6)


17 Become liable for what was swallowed by the dog (5)


19 Was dishonest about the German composer’s work (4)


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Congratulations to Mrs Tamsin McGrath, of Ealing, west London, winner of the 8 January crossword competition. Hers was the first correct entry drawn at random. She will be receiving a bottle of wine courtesy of J. Chandler & Co. Ltd.


SUDOKU Level: Beginner


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


Solution to the 8 January puzzle


18 | THE TABLET | 29 January 2011


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