PUZZLES CROSSWORD No. 279 Compiled by Axe 1
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Crossword competition Please send your answers to: Crossword Competition 1 October, 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 bottle of wine courtesy of J. Chandler & Co. Ltd will go to the sender of the first correct entry drawn at random on Friday 14 October.
●The answers to this week’s puzzles and the crossword winner’s name will appear in the 22 October issue.
1 Trouble as Irish adopt certain German Protestants (12) 9 Mother of Constantine, man and boy (5) 10 Agent chap one infiltrated where David defeated the Philistines (7) 11 Smelling, perhaps, each lake in Judah (4,3) 12 David’s issue with negative Parisian after this morning (5) 13 Ammonite king with a tree of the imperial family going back (6) 15 One of 10? One of 21 in some Exodus versions (6) 18 Priest who, it’s said, was a friend of Job (5) 20 Sargent orchestrations highlight a “Gloria” he wrote (7) 22 One ruling in Egypt when 15 Across hits? (7) 23 Mass coverage on shoulder of motorway’s superb, outstanding (5) 24 I select cases for consideration before going to book (12)
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2 Henry, upset, lied about chasing after a loose woman ... (7) 3 ... Caiaphas’ dad's women are all the same! (5) 4 Horse or pig meat sent up to a town in Canaan (6) 5 An old master’s vision of an archangel? (7) 6 Amorite king’s hard incursion into hill David took (5) 7 Move zoom lens and site to see one of the Apostles (5,7) 8 Number selected in advance to race maybe Jews (6,6) 14 Cassock, neat-cut to the floor, is to change in old France (7) 16 It’s not Jewish to be one among the meek (7) 17 Virginia’s hit badly, being named in the Esther divorce (6) 19 Savings account, one belonging to Abraham (5) 21 One 15 Across seen at the head of great numbers attacking the sheep (5)
Congratulations to Thomas Todd, of Blackheath, south-east London, winner of the 10 September 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 (OUP).
Solution to the 10 September crossword
Across: 7 Joanna; 8 Isaiah; 9 Crib; 10 Atheists; 11 Lassus; 13 Marian; 14 Ado; 15 Baruch; 17 Russia; 19 Boniface; 21 Iona; 23 Nicene; 24 Ararat. Down: 1 Zoar; 2 Anubis; 3 Hadassah; 4 Kish; 5 Xavier; 6 Napthali; 12 Anatolia; 13 Mordecai; 16 United; 18 Shivah; 20 Abel; 22 Noah.
SUDOKU Level: Moderate
Each 3 x 3 box, each row and each column must contain all the numbers 1 to 9.
A long-established Catholic family firm of wine merchants specialising in the supply of Altar Wines to the Clergy and Convents
“SANCTANA” & “SANCTIFEX” Brands
J. CHANDLER & CO. LTD New Abbey House Fyfield Road, Weyhill Andover, Hants, SP11 8DN Tel: 01264 774700 Fax: 01264 774747
20 | THE TABLET | 1 October 2011
Solution to the 10 September puzzle
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