March Crossword
Across
1 President of Persia exits, heads off Church leader! (4)
3 Upset, bares gum, offences taken! (8)
9 Larger disorder about Uganda head is pretty normal! (7)
10 Send message about eel in Texas shortly! (5)
11 No ANC reform by Church law! (5)
12 Monastery removes rot; flunky remains! (3-3)
14 Esprit disturbed minister! (6)
16 Respiratory illness a maths disorder! (6)
19 Remove mark from secret brief facelift! (6)
21 Lose feuds from vouchsafed destruction and chaos! (5)
24 "After ___ died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt", (5)
25 Description of an ocean going bird puts GI in strange place! (7)
26 Lector is re-trained when found in secluded area of monstery!. (8)
27 Agree to give up territory over iced tea without Tai! (4)
Down
1 Pro piece re-worked Biblical extract! (8)
2 A heathen Pythagorean without theory! (5)
4 Try arm torture for heroic saint! (6)
5 Blow up tires for religious ceremonies! (5)
6 Thai log chopped up by Bibilical giant! (7)
7 Boa removed from box seat arrangement for Office at midday! (4)
8 Lizard type loses a "K" gains 50 and enters surreptitiously! (6)
13 Book instalment discovered in FCC aisle! (8)
15 The first part of Dante's poem Divine Comedy; no finer composed! (7)
17 100 halos combined for church choir! (6)
18 Shirley found in a place of worship? (6)
20 Helpers rewrite ideas! (5)
22 Travelogue alert removed as is the prevailing fashion! (5)
23 Elegant and stylish mechanic loses name! (4)
Solution for February
Across: 1 Encamps, 5 Basic, 8 Holy Communion, 9 Ski, 10 Apocrypha, 11 Stifle, 12 Gloria, 15 Antiserum, 17 Sap, 19 Unceremonious, 20 Atlas, 21 Serpent.
Down: 1 Ethos, 2 Calvinistical, 3 Michael, 4 Simeon, 5 Bluer, 6 Slippery slope, 7 Cantata, 11 Scapula, 13 Laminar, 14 Oremus, 16 Sorts, 18 Posit.
The winner of the Marist Messenger prize for the December Crossword was Evelyn Leech of Ellerslie, Auckland
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