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The Bible Society
is publishing a crossword puzzle. This is a 'quick crossword', not a cryptic. I hope that I have made the clues gettable but interesting and relevant. The answers will appear in next month’s magazine . I thank my test solvers Georgina and Norma for their help. All remaining errors Quick Crossword Bruce Jensen are my responsibility. If you like this feature and would like to see more crosswords, kindly send your feedback to the usual address. This month, for the first time within living memory, the parish magazine is publishing a crossword puzzle. This is a 'quick crossword', not a cryptic. - Bruce Jensen I hope that I have made the clues gettable but interesting and relevant. I thank my test solvers Georgina and Norma for their help. All remaining errors are my responsibility.
ACROSS
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1. Charming Dorset market town (8,7) 8. He painted "Dejeuner sur l'Herbe"(5) 9. Cuban dance with a
Cuban spelling (5) 10. A party, a dance or a dinner; not for work (6,5) 13. Have a meal (3) 14. Possess (3) 15. Pandemic of 2020 (11) 21. Things from which something originates (7) 23. The wife of Abraham (5) 24. A principal river of
Dorset (5) 25. Theatre in the afternoon (7) 26. Long shelf-life milk (Abbr.) (3) 29. Also (3) 31. "I will make you fishers of __." (3) 32. You can't hear without it (3) 33. To the max (9) 34. Unable to do the slightest thing (5)
DOWN
1. This London stadium is the largest in England (7) 2. The original Minster was this type of institution (8) 3. The nerve that transmits sight (5) 4. Faster than snail-mail (5) 5. NHS worker (5) 6. Key ingredient in a salad with mozzerella and basil (8) 7. Berkshire town popular pastime (7) 11. This river runs through
Salisbury (4) 12. 16.
17. 18.
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22. 27. 28. “__, vedi, vici.” (4) Mount with 4 US presidents’ faces (8) Surroundings (8) Christina who wrote the Bleak (8) A type of drama that shows the past (7) The one for Bournemouth is actually at Hurn (7) False (6) Witch’s spell (3) The explosive Trinitrotoluene (Abbr.) (3) 29.
30. Where the golf ball sits (3) Retire (Abbr.) (3)
Answers will appear in next month’s magazine .
If you like this feature and would like to see more crosswords, kindly send your feedback to the usual address.
