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Crossword competition Please send your answers to: Crossword Competition 16 July, 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, will go to the sender of the first correct entry drawn at random on Friday 29 July.
●The answers to this week’s puzzles and the crossword winner’s name will appear in the 6 August issue.
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7 See the Pretender take a stance before the final half-hour (6) 8 Provide a roof for that church (6) 9 Hear a London vagrant with a musical instrument (4) 10 To get rid of the fish, you can put it in a stew (8) 11 Little animal companions; you need to pull strings to get them into show business (7) 13 Frequently referring to the decade (5) 15 Take the first two seconds to return the Community leader (5) 16 In Germany, I among all others am most favoured by Mammon (7) 18 On interrupting a Jew or an Arab in a musical interval (8) 19 The Testament gives direction to those in hospital (4) 21 Something went wrong with the Gospel’s first illuminated chapter (6) 22 See the sailor take it easy while the whole thing is burning (6)
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1 Be firm with the Doctor and search thoroughly (4) 2 Order left-wing politicians to infiltrate the Tories starting talks (13) 3 We hear the ship’s personnel’s song, in all its vulgarity (7) 4 Find an article on cats torn into tiny pieces (5) 5 Phone contact from a furious person gives the urge to flee civilisation (4,2,3,4) 6 I admit I’m to blame if scones are ruined (1,7) 12 There’s something shady about dissecting a lemur in the lab (8) 14 A Chilean hero surmounts almost all and is found in a rock (7) 17 I got his description of the old Germans, then I left (5) 20 Kill a zebra, then relax (4)
Congratulations to Bernadette Keyton, of Osbaston, Monmouth, winner of the 25 June 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).
Solution to the 25 June crossword
Across: 7 Giotto; 8 Sonata; 9 Marc; 10 Exegetes; 11 Bonaventure; 14 Orientalium; 18 Bitterns; 20 Suso; 21 Helena; 22
Ealing.Down: 1 Milan; 2 Stucco; 3 Covenant; 4 Ashe; 5 Unrest; 6 Its Ears; 12 Enlisted; 13 Trainer; 15 Esther; 16 Ursula; 17 I Sing; 19 Real.
The Story of the King James Version 1611-2011
SUDOKU Level: Tough
Each 3 x 3 box, each row and each column must contain all the numbers 1 to 9.
Solution to the 25 June puzzle
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