A Catholic Monthly Magazine

April Crossword

MM045

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.

 


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