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Crossword 1303

13 February 2015

by Geoff Millin

Across
7 Quiet old place is renovated, belonging to bishops (9)
9 Son wearing a priest's vestment in small wood (5)
10 Church academy in a linked series (5)
11 Clash with ripe bananas, like an orange (9)
12 Priest in college has one friend, the head (9)
14 '...who can tell a man what shall be after him _______ the sun?' (Eccles. 6:12, AV) (5)
15 Man with fish is refined (7)
17 An olive grove possibly, or a road round church (7)
18 Troy, with a Greek poet turning over a bit of turf (5)
19 Stop working? Enter unconventional curer to give new life (9)
22 Prince and Queen accompanying previous entertainer (9)
24 Containers returned, including superior one for holy water (5)
25 What students do, getting grade finally before Xmas breaks (5)
26 King George's posture giving up a little time for thanks (9)

Down
1 Confused curate needs pence, not rupees, for a drinks vessel (3-3)
2 One rule one day set up for a festival of light (6)
3 Our ancestors perhaps - mostly a nuisance (4)
4 Saints day has authority to include everyone with a halo primarily (10)
5 Funeral odes in the style of the Odyssey, strange idea (8)
6 Disapproved of exploit in which quiet nobleman gets cut (8)
8 Diligent study by physicist e.g. unfinished round Open University (13)
9 Christian festival in Oxford college (6,7)
13 Journey made by pious person, injured girl and wise man (10)
15 Have a safe journey - travel with velocity under 500 (8)
16 Story about Roman Catholic adult concerned with stepmother (8)
20 Ox used to be mistreated in Biblical book (6)
21 Discard favourite ecclesiastical scarf (6)
23 A highway that's wide, not second class (4)

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