PUZZLES CROSSWORD No. 250 1 7 8 9


10 11


13 14 19 18 20 19 21 21 22 23


Crossword competition Please send your answers to: Crossword Competition 12 March, 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 York Courses’ taster pack, new for Lent 2011, “Rich Inheritance – Jesus’ Legacy of Love” – an ecumenical discussion course for groups or individual study, comprising booklet, CD/audiotape and transcript will go to the sender of the first correct entry drawn at random on Friday 25 March.


●The answers to this week’s puzzles and the crossword winner’s name will appear in the 2 April issue.


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


Compiled by Enigma 4


5 5 6 6 Across


7 Split that religious group in two, and you can bid farewell to it! (6)


8 I am taking a long time to produce portraits (6)


9 Emotion caused by the return of disaster (4)


11 14 16 18 12 15 18 17


10 Dismissing a digit, an American invites us to work it out (2,6)


11 Kindness brought the Pope half way to meet Northern Protestants, but that creature intervened! (11)


14 “For those in the know, half of that French brandy lacks fragrance,” I added (11)


18 There is cover for an animal under the frill (8)


20 If three comes back to equal the fourth, we’ll have nothing to cover the floor (4) 21 Swallowed by a bird while on work experience (6)


22 Make the tree fertile and we’ll give you a jacket (6)


Down


1 An animal is heard taking leave of a relative (5)


2 On your bike, I tell you! Try making some sales (6)


3 A horse, surrounded by curious stares, makes uncertain progress (8) 4 Bring it up loudly and you’ll cause an altercation (4)


5 Refusal to admit to a broken leg wins one jewellery (6)


6 Sounds like an oilman! (7) 12 It’s all right about bringing up the quarrel with the priest, but the whole thing is exhausting! (8)


13 See a nun sort out the nature of the straight path (2,5)


15 The French snob mixes with company he find congenial (6)


16 Rang and informed, they say (6) 17 One bows at the approach to the lectern; to do so helps one to pray (5) 19 See! It’s useless when not shortened (4)


Congratulations to Richard Cooper of Sheffield, winner of the 19 February 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 19 February crossword


Across: 7 I Ching; 8 Rabato; 10 Haryana; 11 Otter; 12 Adda; 13 Bayes; 17 Manet; 18 Bear; 22 Asher; 23 Tagalog; 24 Simeon; 25 Hallam. Down: 1 Mishnah; 2 Charade; 3 Angad; 4 Laborem; 5 Vasty; 6 Boars; 9 La Salette; 14 Carrion; 15 Real ale; 16 Origami; 19 Bassi; 20 Thyme; 21 Ogham.


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12 March 2011 | THE TABLET | 23


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


Solution to the 19 February puzzle


SUDOKU Level: Moderate


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