PUZZLES CROSSWORD No. 245 1 2 3 7 8


9 9


10 11 12 14 14 19 19 15 20 20 21 22 23 23


Crossword competition Please send your answers to: Crossword Competition 5 February, 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 18 February.


●The answers to this week’s puzzles and the crossword winner’s name will appear in the 26 February issue.


Solution to the 15 January crossword


Across: 7 Waltz; 8 Immerse; 10 Taphath; 11 Realm; 12 Carpathian; 16 Ontologist; 20 Dwelt; 21 Iconium; 23 Notions; 24 Tract. Down: 1 Twits; 2 Slype; 3 Ezra; 4 Bishop; 5 Emeritus; 6 Arcadia; 9 Egmont; 13 Ablution; 14 Gordon;15 Attests; 17 Grilse; 18 Aidan; 19 Amity; 22 Otto.


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


18 | THE TABLET | 5 February 2011


Solution to the 15 January puzzle


16 15 17 18 13 4 4 4


Compiled by Alanus 5


5 6 6 Across


1 Mostly Catholic Scottish island in the Outer Hebrides (5)


7 Great beasts after the one described in the Book of Job, chapter 40 (9) 8 French cathedral city and diocese in the region of Avignon (5)


9 Voluntary and complete abandonment of hope (7)


10 Tune of atmospheric content? (3) 11 “The personal ----------- of Our Lady of Walsingham” officially erected 15 January 2011 (11)


14 Members of the Order of Premonstratensians, after their founder (11)


18 Son of Noah, not much of an actor! (3) 19 Serf with some social standing in feudal estate system (7)


21 Head of a house of male Religious (5) 22 A shady section of a particular profession (4-5) 23 Cerne -----, village in Dorset giving name to a giant hillside figure (the “Rude Man”) (5)


Down


1 Son of Rachel and Jacob named by his father, Genesis 35:18 (8)


2 Archbishop of El Salvador martyred in 1980 (6) 3------ Person Singular, popular Alan Ayckbourn play (6) 4 ---- Merenti, papal medal awarded to a person for outstanding service to the Catholic Church (4)


5 Final service of the day in the Divine Office (8)


6 Practice of sparing and non-extravagant use of available finances (6)


9 Saint, early Archbishop of Canterbury, giving name to organisation for blind ex-service personnel (7)


12 Profound French satirist (sixteenth century) with Benedictine and Franciscan background (8)


13 People descended from Esau some of whom were wives of Solomon (1 Kings 11) (8)


15 Prolific exegete of the early Church much admired by Eusebius (6) 16 Where the Church’s First (325) and Seventh (787) Ecumenical Councils were held (7)


17 Son of David born in Jerusalem (1 Chronicles 3:5) (6)


20 The worship of such as this greatly contravenes the First Commandment (4)


Congratulations to Mary Gregory, of Belfast, winner of the 15 January 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).


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