September Crossword
Across
1 Car I crashed on way to catechetical programme! (4)
3 Prayer for protection results in glibness! (8)
9 Troy oar found in small chapel! (7)
10 Young hooter (5)
11 Age Concern is released under a bond to return to court! (12)
14 A pool tool (3)
16 Hope to add Carbon in arrangement for new era! (5)
17 I hear there is dinner on the golf course! (3)
18 So I cast aside arrangement to keep a distance from the situation! (12)
21 Alibaba fronts cover story ending with one! (5)
22 Ben’s removal from Green Berets leads to welcoming role at church! (7)
23 Noel made blended soft drink! (8)
24 Style of history, surgery and examination (4)
Down
1 Cork for a strangely mounted luggage
carrier! (4,4)
2 Esau’s father (5)
4 A ballad for a non-cleric? (3)
5 Abdominal pains distress maths coaches! (7,5)
6 Though it’s not quite legal, starting unwell initially, I carry it through! (7)
7 Ticket sales on hinges? (4)
8 Go on catering spree for church crowd! (12)
12 Splendid Olsztyn hides false gods! (5)
13 An intellectual approach disturbs Prince Albert who drops his pint! (8)
15 Slime it! Arrangement for the special treatment of the privileged! (7)
19 Change important church furniture, I hear! (5)
20 Canaanite deity (4)
22 “Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known ___.” - Corrie ten Boom (3)
Solution for August
Across: 1 Apse, 3 Beatific,
9 Baptist, 10 Rabid, 11 North Country, 13 Novice,
15 Novena, 17 Denomination, 20 Lunch, 21 Parable,
22 Semester, 23 Lent.
Down: 1 Albinoni, 2 Sopor,
4 EFTPOS, 5 Tyrannosaurs,
6 Fabergé, 7 Code,
8 Nightclothes, 12 Rain belt,
14 Vietnam, 16 Wimple,
18 Imbue, 19 Alas.
The winner of the Marist Messenger prize for the July Crossword was Sid McCann
of Napier.