April Crossword
Across
1 Old-fashioned desk (4-3)
5 Michelangelo masterpiece (5)
8 Compliant tone results from deep prayer! (13)
9 Make use of a legal challenge! (3)
10 Try a group! Turn up in a place of purification! (9)
12 Upset an alto to produce discordant notes! (6)
13 The best place to hunt for prey (6)
15 A trifle (5,4)
16 “The lowing Herd winds slowly o’er the __”, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (3)
18 The Feast observed after Trinity Sunday (6,7)
20 The type of veneration accorded to saints and angels (5)
21 Supervise (7)
Down
1 Truckies remove tie to form a loose scrum! (5)
2 A non-commissioned officer, ranked above private (5,8)
3 Short Greek removed from ethnography organisation for divine display! (9)
4 Description of the style of art of such artists as Andy Warhol (3,3)
5 Vegetable that rolls (3)
6 Confused riot idealises columnist comments! (13)
7 Ticked off (7)
11 Pale Peter rejuvenates with the fruit of this tree! (5-4)
12 Earl removed from disorganised cardinalate soothes upset stomach! (7)
14 A South American cowboy (6)
17 Still in the game (5)
19 G8 member (3)
Solution for February
Across:
1 Lectionary - Anagram of "No literacy" - indicated by "will result"
8 French Morocco,
9 Ordinary - Pun - "Ordinary" (Local bishop, mundane)
10 Kiwi, 12 Cry on,
14 Peter - Pun
18 Ajax, 19 Bad Taste,
22 Opening Prayer - "Collect" can be a noun (Opening prayer) or a verb (gather money etc)
23 Fennel seed.
Down:
1 Left of,
2 Creed - C = 100 in Roman Numerals ; Anagram "C deer" indicated by "arrange"
3 In convoy, 4 No more,
5 Rort - Remove "cap" from "carport" leaves "rort"
6 Gloria, 7 Scribe, 11 Pectoral, 13 Reader, 15 La Tour,
16 Cap gun - Remove "ink" from "unpacking" leaves "unpacg" - Anagram
17 See red - pun "viewed" = see "colorful" - red
20 Style - Homophone and pun- "Style" sounds like "Stile"
21 Life.
The winner of the Marist Messenger pen for the December Crossword was Sister Mary Scanlon LCM of Wellington.