PUZZLES CROSSWORD No. 264 1 3 8 7
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Crossword competition Please send your answers to: Crossword Competition 18 June, 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 Bible: the story of the King James Version 1611-2011, by Gordon Campbell, OUP, will go to the sender of the first correct entry opened at random on Friday 1 July.
●The answers to this week’s puzzles and the crossword winner’s name will appear in the 9 July issue.
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Compiled by Axe 2
5 6 7 6 6 Across 10 12 14 18 11 15
3 Third person in the Trinity (9) 7 Prejudice that prohibits mention of something because of its sacred nature (variant spelling) (4) 8 Section of the Old Testament with 18 separate books (New Jerusalem Bible) (8) 9 Second most holy city of Islam (6) 10 David’s friend who deserted him for Absalom (6) 12 Superior of a group of women in orders (6) 14 Assyrian capital immediately on the fall of Nineveh (variant spelling) (6) 15 Wycliffian heresy (8) 17 Cap worn by fundamentalist Mormon women (4) 18 Part of the Mass where the Passion, Resurrection and Ascension are recalled (9)
Down
1 Nun of an order founded in Brescia in 1535 (8) 2 Son of Adam (4) 3 The Raccolta or the Pieta, for example (6,4) 4 ----- magna: bishop’s cloak of train and hood (5) 5 Son of Cain (5) 6 Abbot General of the communities on Mount Athos in the late tenth century (10) 11 Sicilian city on Paul’s last stage of his voyage to Rome (8) 13 Roman province of the New Testament, capital Antioch on the Orontes (5) 14 Classical Austrian composer whose Masses include the St Cecilia and Nelson (5) 16 Jacob’s first wife (4)
Congratulations to Maurice Clint, of Belfast, winner of the 28 May crossword competition. His was the first correct entry drawn at random. He will be receiving a copy of Begat: the King James Bible and the English language, by David Crystal (Oxford University Press).
Solution to the 28 May crossword
Across: 5 Aaron; 6 Calif; 8 Mount of Olives; 9 Eliezer; 10 Worms; 13 Gnats; 14 Darius I; 16 Crown of thorns; 18 Shiva; 19 Italy. Down: 1 Transept; 2 En-Rogel; 3 Achor; 4 Albi; 5 Apollinaris; 7 Freemasonry; 11 Obi-woman; 12 Parthia; 15 Roman; 17 Whit.
The Story of the King James Version 1611-2011
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Each 3 x 3 box, each row and each column must contain all the numbers 1 to 9.
Solution to the 28 May puzzle
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