October Crossword
Across
1 A place for the Wise Men to play a card game? (4)
3 Somehow a goodly ox concluded this prayer! (8)
9 Emerging (7)
10 If you concur I am in the Papal administration! (5)
11 In secret son I make a prayer for your needs! (12)
14 Boy (3)
16 Soft music? (5)
17 Barbie's beau (3)
18 eg Pavlova (6,6)
21 Oust (5)
22 Son of David and King of Israel (7)
23 Approaching (8)
24 Container of blessed water (4)
Down
1 A hymn derived from the Bible (8)
2 Placed in (5)
4 "And he that strives to touch the stars, ___ stumbles at a straw" - Edmund Spenser (3)
5 Lays on calico until disturbed from time to time! (12)
6 A fulcrum for rowing (American) (7)
7 Slangy assent (4)
8 A bishop who has authority over Bishops of a province (12)
12 Precise (5)
13 A computer network within an organisation (8)
15 The belief that there are opposing forces in the world such as good and evil, mind and body (7)
19 A role such as Peter Jackson or Alfred Hitchcock might play (5)
20 ___ Maniapoto in the 1850s was a leading supporter of the King Movement. (4)
22 Fall from grace (3)
The winner of the August Crossword was Betty Fitzmaurice of Parnell, who received a Marist Messenger pen for her efforts.
Solution for September
Across: 1 Ambulatory, 8 Perhaps, 9 Pasha, 10 Overt, 11 Endears, 12 Assisi, 14 Oculus, 18 Overdue, 20 Stall, 22 Isaac, 23 Apostle, 24 Magnificat.
Down: 1 Amphora, 2 Borne, 3 Lean-tos, 4 Tassel, 5 Rapid, 6 Beans, 7 Israel, 13 Seesaw, 15 Cast-off, 16 Salient, 17 Remain, 18 Onion, 19 Dacha, 21 Aztec.