April Crossword by Max
The winner of the Marist Messenger prize for the March Crossword was
Robert Thomson of North Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Across
1 The Pope lives in a sacred body of water, I hear! (4,3)
5 A hiccup I daresay may hide his arrows of love! (5)
8 Clerical office actioned a rethink! (9)
9 A short month near year’s end! (3)
10 Organise vendetta without TNT to avoid capture! (5)
12 “Lovely was the death of Him whose life was Love! Holy with power, He on the thought-benighted Skeptic beamed Manifest _____.” S T Coleridge (7)
13 Arranged on locations with God given comfort! (11)
16 “A CIA ram” badly translated from a Semitic language! (7)
18 Horrible motet about object with spiritual significance in indigenous societies! (5)
20 James Clavell’s “___-Pan” (3)
21 Knoll figs transformed sandy course! (4,5)
23 Learn after a fashion of kidney-related descriptor! (5)
24 Worry as regenerated Eurasian medicinal plants discovered! (7)
Down
1 Characters in impoverished geopolitics create a border solution! (5)
2 Spill ale on field! (3)
3 Implements third-rate accommodation in steamship! (7)
4 Angelical levy restored by manner of preaching! (13)
5 “He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short _____,” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (5)
6 Pen octets haphazardly during Christian feast! (9)
7 To cause disagreement, I dived awkwardly! (6)
11 I, a donator, amended Eucharistic veneration! (9)
14 Tut! Liar dissembles about formal position without authority! (7)
15 Able to decompose backwards while leading singing at church! (6)
17 North wind destroyed heavenly messenger! (5)
19 Prophet some confused with southern ending! (5)
22 Military appointment is a devious con! (3)
Solution for April
Across: 1 Prophet, 5 Arena, 8 Utter, 9 Introit, 10 Beatification, 11 Side, 12 Pyx, 13 RCIA, 17 Excommunicate, 20 Godhead, 21 Third, 22 Nurse, 23 Yardman.
Down: 1 Plumb, 2 Outward, 3 Hermit, 4 Trinity Sunday, 5 Actual, 6 E coli, 7 Antenna, 11 Sten gun, 14 Charism, 15 Ampere, 16 Sister, 18 Cedar, 19 End on.
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