Compiled by Jeannie Hollands

Across

1 Biblical story (7)

5 Breaks free (7)

9 ‘The --,I’ll not want’, (hymn) (5,2,8)

10 Intense fear (6)

11 Twitter (5)

14 Dawn (6)

15 Bishop’s throne (8)

18 Cutlet (4,4)

19 Waterproof jacket (6)

21 Door-fastening (5)

23 Metrical foot (6)

26 ‘where’er the sun’, (hymn) (5,5,5)

27 Spouse (7)

28 Two-panel painting (7)

Down

1 Sunday before Easter (4)

2 ‘As they offered goods most --’, (carol) (4)

3 Diocese (9)

4 Donkey in Winnie-the-Pooh books (6)

5 Heavenly (8)

6 Suffer punishment (slang) (3,2)

7 Resident clergyman (10)

8 Diverts (10)

12 Praise of God (10)

13 Playwrights (10)

16 Scheme to catch by seduction (5-4)

17 Building storing timber (8)

20 Climbed up (6)

22 Perennial herbaceous plant (5)

24 Ruth (4)

25 Move slowly (4)

Solution to April 2025 Quick Crossword

ACROSS: 1 Immortal, 9 Imitator, 10 Knee, 11 Resurrection, 13 Steeple, 15 Eternal, 16 Extra, 17 Scott, 18 Tepid, 20 Pence, 22 Mayoral, 23 Tap into, 25 Were you there, 27 Monk, 28 Assessor, 29 Infinite.

DOWN: 2 Monastic, 3 O perfect love, 4 Thistle, 5 Litre, 6 Biretta, 7 Etui, 8 Crinkled or Wrinkled, 12 Three Wise Men, 14 Expel, 15 Erect, 17 Somewhat, 19 Internet, 20 Papoose, 21 Ease off, 24 Uteri, 26 Rose.