May Crossword
Clues
Across
1 Aden discovered he is a senior clergyman! (4)
3 A white cloth on the
altar sir? (8)
9 Halo appears with a Spanish shout at the end ! (7)
10 Days past; almost a fifty year anniversary! (5)
11 Murmur Verona while composing Pope Leo’s encyclical! (5,7)
14 A feathery scarf which constricts? (3)
16 Wandering thorn allows a new direction! (5)
17 Found mostly in land, carrying genetic information! (3)
18 Discover red salmon dip in Caanan! (8,4)
21 Rash Englishman hides sickly pallor! (5)
22 Antarctic creature is alone, distraught! (3,4)
23 Academic term resets me in a fashion! (8)
24 Calf food? (4)
Down
1 Verbal spray at birdie, incoherent! (8)
2 Sounds like drying cupboard was a mistake! (5)
4 Buried detonator eases out mineral for extraction! (3)
5 Red coral path constructed for Bishop’s temporary church! (12)
6 “We are ready to endure their curses so long as they ___ to their blessing.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer (7)
7 Fifty and ten - adds up to a time of repentance! (4)
8 Moms can’t mend broken laws of God! (12)
12 Bulldog rescued secretly from man-eating giant! (5)
13 Tip-toe out of unusual declaration of Pope’s advisor! (8)
15 He who was the answer to 18 across! (7)
19 I came confused; a white cloth around my shoulders under my vestments! (5)
20 A type of hysteria associated with communal worship? (4)
22 Sounds like the Bishop’s Cathedral is in a large body of water! (3)
Solution for April Crossword
Across: 1 Rope tow, 5 Aisle,
8 Genuflect, 9 CLI, 10 Dense, 12 Earhart, 13 Down at the heel, 15 Papeete, 17 Autos,
19 Yip, 20 Episcopal, 22 Harps, 23 Elysian.
Down: 1 Rigid, 2 Pen, 3 Taffeta, 4 Where’s the fire, 5 Altar,
6 Sacrament, 7 Edictal,
11 Newspaper, 13 Diptych,
14 Eparchy, 16 Ewers, 18 Salon, 21 Psi.
The winner of the Marist Messenger prize for the March Crossword was Keith Shirley of Te Aro, Wellington.