PUZZLES CROSSWORD No. 247


1 7


2 2 1 3 2 4


3 8


6 10 9 11


Compiled by Enigma 4


4 5 7 6 Across


7 Book of Changes, one of five classics of Confucianism (1,5)


8 Sixteenth/seventeenth-century collar wired to stand up at the back of the head (6)


12 14


14 19 22


17 20 16 23 21 13 13 18 15 16


10 North Indian state; birthplace of Hinduism (7)


11 Semi-aquatic mammal of the weasel family (Mustelidae) (5)


24 25


Crossword competition Please send your answers to: Crossword Competition 19 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 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 March.


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


12 Flowing from Rhaetian Alps, this river enters Lake Como after a course of 194 miles (4) 13 Thomas ----- (1702-1761), English theologian and mathematician ; wrote Essay Towards Solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances (5) 17 Déjeuner sur L’Herbe, exhibited in 1863, is one of his most famous paintings (5) 18 The ---- Flag Revolt (June-July 1846) involved American settlers and Mexicans in California (4)


22 Tribe of Israel named after the younger of Jacob’s two sons by Zilpah (5) 23 Language on which is based Pilipino, an official language of the Philippines (7) 24 In the daily Liturgy of the Hours, canticles of Our Lady, Zechariah and ------ (6) 25 Arthur Henry ------ (b.1811), essayist and poet commemorated in Tennyson’s “In Memoriam” (6)


Solution to the 29 January crossword


Across: 7 Chrome; 8 Legend; 9 Isis; 10 Cameroon; 11 Catholicism; 14 Spirit Lamps; 18 Cordelia; 20 Link; 21 Strobe; 22 Earful. Down: 1 Chess; 2 Hot Spa; 3 Beach Hut; 4 Slum; 5 Agaric; 6 Endorse; 12 Leakages; 13 Sprouts; 15 Radios; 16 Paltry; 17 Incur; 19 Lied.


SUDOKU Level: Challenging


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


Solution to the 29 January puzzle


Down


1 The first written summary of Jewish law (7)


2 1963 film starring Cary Grant (7) 3 Another name for Lehna or Lahina, originator of Punjabi script Gurmukhi, sacred to the Sikhs (5) 4 ------- Exercens, encyclical September 1981 (7)


5 “I can call spirits from the ----- deep” (1 Henry IV, III. i.) spoken by Glendower (5) 6 Their species was associated, in heraldry, with Richard III (5)


9 Here, in France, Our Lady is said to have appeared to two children on 19 September 1846 (2,7) 14 The caracara, or ------- hawk, belongs to the family Falconidae (7)


15 Campaigners called for this to be obtainable in pubs (4,3)


16 Japanese art of paper folding without cutting, pasting or decorating (7) 19 Ugo ----- (1801-1849), Barnabite priest, great preacher and patriot, follower of Garibaldi (5)


20 Herb liked by bees, burned as incense in ancient Greek temples (5) 21 Ancient Celtic writing used on monuments (5)


Congratulations to Stephen Richards, of Whitstable, winner of the 29 January 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).


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