PUZZLES CROSSWORD No. 278


1 7


2 3


4 8


9 10 11 4 5


Compiled by Alanus 6


7 9


Across 12


14 16


15 17 20 21


20 22


18


16 19


13


23 23


25 24


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Crossword competition Please send your answers to: Crossword Competition 24 September, 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’ “Handing on the Torch: sacred words for a secular world”, new for Lent 2012, will go to the sender of the first correct entry drawn at random on Friday 7 October.


●The answers to this week’s puzzles and the crossword winner’s name will appear in the 15 October issue.


7 Creature endlessly becomes a soul (5) 8 Article in hospital above Royal House by George! (7) 10 Apt that ruin is linked roughly to Cromwellian (7) 11 Henry’s code among the Forty Martyrs (5) 12 Heard dancing with poor actor at Feast of Our Lady of this weekend (10) 16 Amen, Peter converted about a hundred to virtue (10) 20 Motorway and truncated short road for location of La Scala (5) 21 Half recall fish giving name to fifteenth- century Flemish religious artist (7) 23 Gone and altered legal reference defining infancy (7) 24 District in New Zealand in which zealot agonised (5)


Down


1 Integral philosophy by which 11 co- martyr Sherwin christened (5) 2 Drinks we hear for supporters of the coffins en route (5) 3 & 4 Down: Cobbler’s item and general items for eschatological study! (4,6) 4 See 3 Down 5 Reminder from end of Autumn about income (8) 6 & 22 Down: Feeling good in lunar orbit? (4,3,4) 9 About a thousand shire changes to reveal Catholic cathedral in France (6) 13 He survived Nebuchadnezzar’s furnace being in a place of sleep gone mad (8) 14 Part of flower whereby Saint concludes prayer (6) 15 Moving at an easy pace finding note after lamb restored at home (7) 17 Naval attack force with an artist inside insane (6) 18 From Acts I lastly name man imprisoned with Paul in Philippi (5) 19 Judges reveal (3:12) Moabite king for example with half the capital (5) 22 See 6 Down


Congratulations to Madeleine O’Callaghan, of Cambridge, winner of the 3 September crossword competition. Hers was the first correct entry drawn at random. She will be receiving a bottle of wine courtesy of J. Chandler & Co. Ltd.


Solution to the 3 September crossword


Across: 7 Weigel; 8 Patmos; 10 Thomism; 11 Sacre; 12 Urdu; 13 Snook; 17 Palms; 18 Soho; 22 Enoch; 23 Naamite; 24 Leuven; 25 Dvorak. Down:1 Swithun; 2 Gironde; 3 Benin; 4 Mansion; 5 Amice; 6 Asher; 9 Amendment; 14 Raphael; 15 Goliard; 16 Gorecki; 19 Wells; 20 Coeur; 21 Salvi.


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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 3 September puzzle


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