March Crossword
Clues
Across
1 Tough gradient before the French spire! (7)
5 Harps retuned by a semitone! (5)
8 Strangely, Lancelot loses net somewhere nearby! (5)
9 Ample in certain circumstances, vestment once worn on left arm! (7)
10 The bottom line is that Mary is removed from summary! (3)
11 Cry as aunt scrambles for safety in church! (9)
13 Relative turns up US icon! (6)
14 Come at 22:00 hours and start devotions! (6)
16 Catholic valuers in turmoil! (9)
17 What "it" plays (3)
19 Russian empress crashes Nazi car! (7)
21 A critical angle? (5)
22 Precede wait with extended sleep! (3-2)
23 Shelter from the wind and mix diesel with energy! (3,4)
Down
1 Distraught seismologist dispenses with egotism and discovers grain stores! (5)
2 Exclude from church and disrupt Amex income cut! (13)
3 Dispense penalties in the Holy Land! (9)
4 Silver miner secretly enjoys fine fur! (6)
5 Go astray in business! (3)
6 Each tarpaulin unwrapped under bright star! (5,8)
7 Drunken result of comic throwing a cream cake? (3-4)
12 Excite bird, one left dead! (9)
13 Deliberative body's strange conclusions exclude sons! (7)
15 David, "the sweet psalmist of ___" (6)
18 Eg. See unusual birds flying in formation! (5)
20 Pioneer without peer discovers charged particle! (3)
The winner of the Marist Messenger prize for the December Crossword was Bill & Joan O’Neil of Nelson
Solution for February
Across: 1 Weather, 5 Leech,
8 Altar, 9 Council, 10 SVP,
11 Catacombs, 13 Shrive,
14 Nature, 16 Apocrypha, 17 Id's,
19 Minster, 21 Psalm, 22 Relic,
23 Therein.
Down: 1 Wraps, 2 Antipersonnel, 3 Hardcover, 4 Recite, 5 Leu,
6 Excommunicate, 7 Holy See,
12 Crab apple, 13 Slammer,
15 Spirit, 18 Simon, 20 Tic.
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