December Crossword
Across
1 Drunken sot removed from stockpiled preserves! (7)
5 Organise occasion without sin with a cup of hot chocolate! (5)
8 Divine advocate revises act repeal! (9)
9 Irritate old horse? (3)
10 Well-up in secret admiration of plant with purplish blue flowers! (5)
12 Rejected son of Abraham disturbs lime ash! (7)
13 Boisterous rioters suit up in a secretive manner! (13)
15 Injured Carmichael loses arm for sacred cup! (7)
17 Pickled flower bud used for robbery? (5)
19 The name of thirteen popes (3)
20 Adrian too distraught for prayerful worship! (9)
22 A sound agreement (5)
23 Strangely, a lion is a useful link between people! (7)
Down
1 Appal in Vatican head kind of way! (5)
2 Unusual arc in passenger train! (3)
3 Official permission to remove asp from broken pencil case! (7)
4 They do wind Leo up, being extreme and unchangeable! (4-2-3-4)
5 Verify, so to speak, East European language! (5)
6 Melon tin container a lout dismantled quietly (9)
7 Auld Langsyne without Dylan revised as a Marian prayer! (7)
11 Go up & tarry perhaps on way to heaven! (9)
13 Cruel as disturbed diocesan clergy! (7)
14 Bach piece played staccato with no introduction! (7)
16 Furious buccaneer lost head! (5)
18 Arrest for disagreement? (3-2)
21 His Christogram changed! (3)
The winner of the Marist Messenger prize for the October Crossword was Cyril Gilfedder of Dunedin.
Solution for November
Across: 1 Amen, 3 Surplice,
9 Crosier, 10 Ether,
11 Episcopalian, 13 Income, 15 Outlaw, 17 Radiotherapy, 20 Alibi, 21 Retsina,
22 Lamented, 23 Fete.
Down: 1 Accredit, 2 E coli,
4 Unripe, 5 Poet laureate,
6 Ishmael, 7 Euro,
8 Circumcision, 12 Away game, 14 Charism, 16 Starve, 18 Amice, 19 Pall.
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