A Catholic Monthly Magazine

September Crossword

Across

1 Go hungry or rearrange narratives without Iran! (6)

4 "___ are sinners who kept on going", Robert Louis Stevenson (6)

9 Awkward pleasantry without any prayer book! (7)

10 A compendium as mum explained! (5)

11 In the barrel I could see a holy souvenir! (5)

12 Possibly see sign at Bible opening! (7)

13 Passionate President gave sign to Moses! (7,4)

18 Brief Russian atlas rediscovered in the Southern hemisphere! (7)

20 A port reopened for a geometric painting style! (2,3)

22 Giant slayer and king (5)

23 Abraham's son was some selfish male strangely! (7)

24 Remove head director with the French brainteaser! (6)

25 Let us pray or muse novelly in Latin! (6)

Down

1 There's a bee in my purse! Great! (6)

2 Sounds like a woman's face covering may be of use! (5)

3 Barrel one may bring to Pontiff's place! (7)

5 Secretly appears only in a criminal case of bad lighting! (5)

6 It may seem sin after a fashion, is your arch-enemy! (7)

7 Spares unfortunately are in lean supply! (6)

8 Ali's ironing kind of displays our tendency to evil! (8,3)

14 Data not backed up? You may go to Hell (7)

15 A religious sibling? (7)

16 Seeker of the 'Lost Ark' (6)

17 One hesitates to sit in theatre seats? (6)

19 Idler ripped altar curtain! (5)

21 CIA influence removed from calamari production; a warning signal! (5)

The winner of the Marist Messenger prize for the July Crossword was Betty Fitzmaurice of Auckland

Solution for August

Across: 1 Archaic, 5 Alpha,
8 Spoor, 9 Ribands, 10 Inn, 11 Catechism, 13 Sermon,
14 Lapsed, 16 Monastery,
17 Imp, 19 The Fall,
21 Drake, 22 Moses,
23 Mystery. 

Down: 1 Assai, 2 Crown princess, 3 Atrocious,
4 Curate, 5 Alb, 6 Pontius Pilate, 7 Assumed,
12 Charybdis, 13 Symptom, 15 Vellum, 18 Piety, 20 Ass. 


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