Crossword for May
Across
1 Spoil self again with a time of quiet and prayer! (7)
5 Secret call to abolish rugby attracts a gesture of indifference! (5)
8 I run slip coach ragged in local church committee! (6,7)
9 Calm in the storm restores agreement I hear! (3)
10 Pal copies reorganised Bishop’s affairs! (9)
12 Choose with divine intervention to change a nation! (6)
13 Prussian capital heads general increase in wages bringing admiration! (6)
15 Title of a person promoted to the first stage of the canonisation (9)
16 Religious woman (3)
18 Clandestine (13)
20 Dirge badly performed on hilltop! (5)
21 An English cider (7)
Down
1 Puree concoction for an Indian coin! (5)
2 Shape of popular 18th century felt hat. (5-8)
3 Re-enter as confused resident on the sunrise coast! (9)
4 Tricky tic-tac-toe manoeuvre without appendage! (6)
5 An old and little valued French coin (3)
6 Once more I port shakily into welcome area! (9,4)
7 Region in north of Israel (7)
11 “By a ___ mankind was made, and only by that ___ can mankind be remade.” Desiderius Erasmus (9)
12 Mentor (7)
14 A line of defence consisting of a barrier of trees with branches pointed toward the enemy (6)
17 Antsy, upset, spiteful! (5)
19 Mother of Seth (3)
Solution for April
Across:
7 Career, 8 Missal, 9 Myth, 10 Purchase, 11 Psalter,
13 Tramp, 15 Tithe,
17 Seaside, 20 Socrates,
21 Moth, 23 Belial, 24 Sister.
Down:
1 Mary, 2 Bethel, 3 Prophet, 4 Smart, 5 Esther,
6 Ransomed, 12 Slipover,
14 Persist, 16 Hermit,
18 Samosa, 19 Stole,
22 Thea.
The winner of the Marist Messenger pen for the March Crossword was J&J Cahill, Porirua.
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