CROSSWORDS

October 2019 Crossword – Compiled by Jeannie Hollands

Across

1 Moses’ successor (6)

4 Openly done (6)

7 Woman from Thyatira (Acts 16:14) (5)

9 Reuse (6)

10 Short stanza (8)

11 Religious ritual (9)

13 Satan (5)

16 Apostle who betrayed Jesus (5,8)

18 Lathery (5)

19 Custom (9)

23 Mexican music (8)

24 Consecrated oil (6)

25 Bit (5)

26 Creed (6)

27 Transgressed (6)

Down

1 Jesus healed his daughter (6)

2 Empty talk (3,3)

3 Old metalworker (9)

4 Chaplain (5)

5 Tropical disease (4-4)

6 Grain (6)

8 Religious ceremony (6,7)

12 Former French province (5)

14 Lead-in (5)

15 Jewish aristocrats (9)

17 Apostle (8)

18--and Delilah (6)

20 Headdress (6)

21 OT hunter (6)

22 Room for action (5)

October 2019 Cryptic Crossword – Compiled by Peter Chamberlain

Across

1 Protestant according to the doctrine of the Gospel (11)

9 Love affair by a thousand of us (5)

10 Lad getting the message (6,3)

12 Nothing winger had for romantically demonstrative partner (8)

13 Some of the collect Ernest read from here (7)

15 Getting on anew without a government initially (5)

16 Worship of the Magi (9)

17 River port unfinished (4)

18 Everybody alongside western barrier (4)

19 Frank was forthright (9)

20 Notes first of rays coming from the sun (5)

21 Engineers agreement in island in Indian Ocean (7)

24 Expressing sorrow about said lady’s shelter (8)

26 Sponsor’s remarkable pet dragon (9)

27 Man has the revolutionary article (5)

28 Lived beside eccentric who had no faith (11)

Down

2 Lines from overseas (5)

3 Very small rise when at sea (4,4)

4 Senior tree (5)

5 Avoid Olivia embracing hero (4)

6 More recent one coming from church in Rome (7)

7 Name island first for friar (9)

8 Wasteful numbers turned up in parable (8,3)

11 Coming from York, pump I damaged on fast-day (3,6)

13 Praises said late meal, Holy Communion (5,6)

14 Did not start the ranting about close shave (4,5)

16 Overwhelming influx from one church in a valley (9)

18 Soak tender sucker (3-5)

19 Utterly pompous (7)

22 Drive out from exercises with unqualified person (5)

23 Cat found in the pound (5)

25 Short book, second-class, is grave (4)

A £15 book token will be awarded to the senders of the first three correct solutions to Crossword (October). The first two winners of Cryptic Crossword (October) 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 October 16. The solution will be published in November and the prizewinners in December.

Solution to September 2019 Crossword

ACROSS: 1 Inimical; 9 Adulator; 10 Apse; 11 Thanksgiving; 13 Cainite; 15 STD code; 16 Agape; 17 Tithe; 18 Crypt; 20 Aesop; 22 Bequest; 23 Reredos; 25 Rosetta stone; 27 Ruth; 28 Automata; 29 Conclude.

DOWN: 2 Naphtali; 3 Meeting-house; 4 Canasta; 5 Lanky; 6 Vulgate; 7 Etui; 8 Fragment; 12 Vicar-general; 14 Egret; 15 Spoor; 17 Tiberias; 19 Profited; 20 Ashtray; 21 Peloton; 24 Isaac; 26 Seth.

Winners of August 2019 Crossword – Mrs Betty Thomson, Galashiels; Mrs M Fletcher, Oban; Miss Margaret Brown, St Andrews.

Solution to September 2019 Cryptic Crossword

ACROSS: 1 Paten; 4 Cop shop; 9 Dominical letter; 10 Epistle; 11 Eyeless; 12 Arc; 13 Tighter; 15 Titular; 16 Aerosol; 19 Versing; 21 Eve; 22 Entrain; 23 Selects; 25 Dance attendance; 26 Re-entry; 27 Stave.

DOWN: 1 Pumping; 2 Tenet; 3 Nuclear; 4 Collect; 5 Precentor; 6 Hot meal; 7 Parish register; 8 Advent calendar; 14 Testament; 17 Retinue; 18 Lengthy; 19 Vespers; 20 Incense; 24 Lydia.

Winners of August 2019 Cryptic Crossword – Bea Mackay, Golspie; Elizabeth Macleod, Munlochy.