CROSSWORDS

June 2019 Crossword – Compiled by Jeannie Hollands

Across

1 ‘-- --, be strong’ (modern hymn) (2,4)

4 ‘By day a -- of cloud’, (Exodus 13:21AV) (6)

7 Perfect (5)

9 King of Persia in Daniel 6 (6)

10 Sudden revelation (8)

11 ‘The Gospel -- to Matthew’ (9)

13 Prayer before a meal (5)

16 Crossing-place under Strait of Dover (7,6)

18 Priest (5)

19 Wife of David and mother of Solomon (9)

23 One of Daniel’s three companions (8)

24 Largest country (6)

25 King of Persia, 600-529BC (5)

26 Minor criticism (6)

27 Ecclesiastical scarf (6

Down

1 Religious founder (6)

2 Character in ‘Twelfth Night’ (6)

3 Dissenter (9)

4 ‘Found a -- in the land of Shinar’, (Genesis 11:2AV) (5)

5 Follower of a German Protestant (8)

6 Print again (6)

8 ‘-- -- strong to save’, (hymn) (7,6)

12 Spiny plants (5)

14 Father of Mesha (1 Chronicles 2:42) (5)

15 Holy Communion (9)

17 Giving prizes (8)

18 ‘Be Thou my --, O Lord of my heart’, (hymn) (6)

20 Stifle (4,2)

21 Old Testament mount (6)

22 Cheek (5)

June 2019 Cryptic Crossword – Compiled by Peter Chamberlain

Across

1 Pedro, gosh! He’d upset Jesus (4,8)

8 Tubby person turned back, say, some peas first (5)

9 Name phone exchange having remarkable developments (9)

11 Builder does not start to go round a nuclear device (7)

12 Control fashionable cinema perhaps (5-2)

13 Link sheep that is included (3-2)

14 Cover duck and swallow (9)

17 Ain’t sort of false chanting (9)

19 South American welcome for dish from Japan (5)

20 Short preliminary passage, it follows anthem (7)

23 Obvious I had entered race (7)

24 Become encouraged and accept a card (4,5)

25 Proscribed cricketer returned with pair of spectacles (5)

26 Modern rev set out to become archbishop (4,8)

Down

1 One at the baptism got round new padre before noon (9)

2 Surpass with open work (7)

3 Splendid, her love for benevolent fictional character (9)

4 Correct to put me in goal (5)

5 Dealer in stockings etc. accepts nothing from this state, Indiana (7)

6 Some more evening work for steward (5)

7 Religious song first by medium (12)

10 A sister involved in dubious inaction during proclamation (12)

15 Meeting place not used in middle of night? (3,6)

16 Sleeping-place for natives? (6-3)

18 Support the other inspired teacher (7)

19 Pin, one of a number that go with beer (7)

21 Entering into Kyoto or another Japanese city (5)

22 Detect minute quantity (5)

A £15 book token will be awarded to the senders of the first three correct solutions to Crossword (June). The first two winners of Cryptic Crossword (June) will receive a £20 book token. Entries should be addressed to Life and Work (Crossword), 121 George Street, Edinburgh, EH2 4YN and should arrive by June 12. The solution will be published in July and the prizewinners in August.

Solution to May 2019 Crossword

ACROSS: 1 Pope; 3 Bartimaeus; 10 Amerind; 11 Ascetic; 12 Make me a channel; 14 Eternity; 15 Ulster; 17 Hermit; 19 Damascus; 22 Extreme unction; 24 Aaronic; 25 Chrisom; 26 Endangered; 27 Oslo.

DOWN: 1 Pray; 2 Prelate; 4 Andretti; 5 Trance; 6 Michaelmas Term; 7 Extinct; 8 Secularism; 9 Ride on ride on in; 13 Gethsemane; 16 Barnacle; 18 Retired; 20 Croesus; 21 Rescue; 23 Ambo.

Winners of April 2019 Quick Crossword – Seona Maguire, Glasgow; Mrs M Boothroyd, Lairg; Eileen Watson, Edinburgh

Solution to May 2019 Cryptic Crossword

ACROSS: 1 Sanctify; 9 Orthodox; 10 Cain; 11 Queen of Sheba; 13 Melissa; 15 Jellied; 16 Ephod; 17 Canto; 18 Vowed; 20 Altar; 22 Tyndale; 23 Highest; 25 Church school; 27 Ikon; 28 Mosquito; 29 Rhapsody.

DOWN: 2 Anathema; 3 Conquistador; 4 Incense; 5 Young; 6 Stuffed; 7 Adze; 8 Expanded; 12 Holy of holies; 14 Apple; 15 Jonah; 17 Catacomb; 19 Enshroud; 20 All-hail; 21 Ricotta; 24 Ichor; 26 Ursa.

Winners of April 2019 Cryptic Crossword – Barbara McColl, Inverness; Rev A.H. Haddow, Aberdeen