November Crossword
Across
1 Quartet singing "Money, money, money" won't impress our Father (4)
3 Distress miser Cox to banish the evil spirit! (8)
9 Raconteurs leave disturbed ultraconservative Jewish city! (3,4)
10 Horses ridden by poor journalists? (5)
11 Holy people may die in the ____ of sanctity (5)
12 Rewinding Big Ben results in gradual decline! (6)
14 Though wary of their gift givers we embrace their democratic principles. (6)
16 Arimathean who gave up his tomb (6)
19 One who is at one with the divine (6)
21 Lear removed from unreality discovers the end of division! (5)
24 Pursuer of the Pleiades (5)
25 Religious institute upsets Oedipus! (4,3)
26 “It gives me a deep comforting sense that 'things seen are ___ and things unseen are eternal.'" - Helen Keller (8)
27 Secretly can't abide anagrams? See a senior clergyman! (4)
Down
1 However disturbed, halt Hugo! (8)
2 Top British Intelligence leads Baggins out! (5)
4 Clean dirt from taxi driver upset by St Francis! (6)
5 Stir a herb for beneficial treatment! (5)
6 An aromatic substance might enrage? (7)
7 Come together for worship? (4)
8 "Slavonic Dances" composer starts Digital Video Recorder under English tree! (6)
13 "They traveled through the ___ and Galatian territory because they had been prevented by the Holy Spirit from preaching the message in the province of Asia." Acts 16:6 (8)
15 The destination of peace and happiness for Greek heroes and gods (7)
17 Sulu and co. reverse into a circular window! (6)
18 Start education and end with a bit of a lark singing in a small choir! (6)
20 It takes two to dance apparently! (5)
22 Launch Enid I as a film company not associated with a major studio! (5)
23 Type of holy water container? (4)
Solution for October
Across: 1 Charisms, 5 Apse,
9 Angelus, 10 Agape,
11 Unregenerate, 13 Levite,
15 Embryo, 17 Atomic energy,
20 Yacht, 21 Drachma, 22 Hunt, 23 Passably.
Down: 1 Chasuble, 2 Anger,
3 Illegitimate, 4 Musing, 6 Psalter, 7 Even, 8 Sacramentals,
12 Polygamy, 14 Vatican,
16 Acedia, 18 Rahab, 19 Myth.
The winner of the Marist Messenger prize for the September Crossword was Sister Mary Scanlon LCM of Wellington.