PUZZLES CROSSWORD No. 285 1 7 8 6


10 9


1 5 9 7 8 2 1 3 2 4 3 4


Compiled by Axe 4


5 6 6 6 Across


5 Bringing one to believe in lyric poet’s work (10)


6 Mass response to live artist working in fruit (6,2)


9 10 14 13 19 15 12 20 16 21 18 18 23


Crossword competition Please send your answers to: Crossword Competition 5 November, 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 the Oxford Dictionary of Saints, fifth edition revised, by David Farmer, will go to the sender of the first correct entry drawn at random on Friday 25 November.


●The answers to this week’s puzzles and the crossword winner’s name will appear in the 3 December issue.


17 13 14 18 11 15


7 From where in Nebraska you get to smell, and see, the Promised Land? (4) 9 He conquered Babylon after Mediterranean island’s subdued, cast aside (5)


11 Object of gold Saul connected to sorceress working here (5) 12 One lady converted in Philippi? (5) 14 Miracle food discovered during German Nazi period (5)


15 Church partly in Wales, name facing west (4)


16 One not convinced by American tune‘s twist and jerk (8)


18 Mark place of betrayal, a segment he desecrated (10)


Down


1 Thomas to meet Oliver’s request? (4) 2 Motors around a low grade pair of arboreal features in Lebanon (6) 3 Simon’s place on Tyneside during the church year (6) 4 Study of a wild animal piece in the OT (5,3) 5 Missionary rips off a Miss Black from Liverpool (9) 8 Rabbinate formed to gain order in Milan (9) 10 Absolved for account at the end of June being in debit (8) 13 Murdered virgin in Italy with a gun, hand getting half blown off (6) 14 One who runs place without a dining facility (6) 17 Lead which wise men follow (4)


Congratulations to Paul Attard, of Northampton, winner of the 22 October 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 22 October crossword


Across: 5 Philippians; 7 Mozart; 8 Edmund; 9 Samaria; 12 Troy; 13 Isis; 14 Atticus; 15 Jerome; 17 Pisano; 19 St Anatolius.Down: 1 Ziba; 2 Victoria; 3 Apse; 4 Dalmatic; 5 Poor Sisters; 6 Song of Songs; 10 Massorah; 11 Antiphon; 16 Esau; 18 Seir.


Dictionary of Saints


SUDOKU Level: Moderate


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


Solution to the 22 October puzzle


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