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Crossword No. 1714

28 March 2025

by the Revd Edwin Wilton-Morgan

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Across

1 Hospital irritates back then back of patient’s tongue (8)

6 Sermon: in case of heresy, bring car around (6)

9 Extremely herby wraps — a stable diet? (3)

10 Comrade outraged one cousin of Queen (8)

11 Wickedness in country church (6)

12 Revised ambient setting for Ireland’s last leader: power-sharing? (6,6)

14 Beginnings of harvest, each reader bringing greenery (4)

15 French art shifted erotic type of religion? (8)

18 Writer from pop group U-turning after drunken jeer (8)

19 Saint’s shroud, we hear (4)

21 Expression of disgust in fellow’s subsequent crime (12)

24 Training incumbent starts to scream: hates role in a month! (6)

25 To bail on strange offering (8)

26 Knight in parables I read (3)

27 Jewellery permitted after Egyptian cross trimmed (6)

28 Are lady’s whisks — sold here? (4,4)

 

Down

2 Maintain a profession (4)

3 Team present piece of furniture (4,5)

4 Renounce a series of books after about a hundred (6)

5 He, in theory, belting out hymn (5,2,3,5)

6 My Bono mix in Hong Kong producing compilation of songs (4,4)

7 Hebrew King Saul’s last among those who will inherit the earth (5)

8 Dissolute debts following dissolute client (10)

13 Cleric with joy making the end of the Bible? (10)

16 Unexpectedly, he tears up one of four flowers from garden? (9)

17 Gambit is misleading Jacob, say (8)

20 Coastal erosion reveals what things become with time? (6)

22 Synagogue: Screaming Lord Sutch trod awkwardly out (5)

23 Cost = hard work after dropping one line (4) 

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