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Church Times 2 August 2013

ACROSS

8              Sleuthing monk, vulgar character, returned piece of paper (7)

9              Mostly wrong about end of beloved hymn tune (7)

11           Pope rarely restricting musical work (5)

12           Religious leader backed a boy and backed a country in AFrica (5,4)

13           Saucy lout, active as petty thief in theatre (9)

15           Prophet, soft at heart instead, looks sad (5)

17           Sailor’s greeting spurned by hard Biblical prince (7)

18           Say air’s polluted in Biblical region (7)

20           Jewish month – part of August is right? (5)

22           Real gold, then a lot of tin and carbon (9)

23           Eastern Biblical kingdom recalled in register, for example (4,5)

26           One-third of Anglicans coming in to dance (5)

27           Painter is second to be embraced by friend (7)

28           Barrister’s reckoning reduced, leading to endless deception (7)

DOWN

1              Clamorous chant possibly emerging from here? (6,8)

2              They expect coming volume to be penned by American surgeons with particular specialism (10)

3              Standard supported by everyone engaging the French in correspondence (8)

4              Snow vehicle wrongly guided but missing the motorway (4)

5              Various ascetics besting the French preacher (10)

6              Male attitude I’m picking up in prophet’s sister (6)

7              Contribution to inspirational island retreat (4)

10           Disciplined class does read about fifty religious documents (4,3,7)

14           Take over and stop new game? (10)

16           Saint, mostly impure, misrepresented system of strict morals (10)

19           Range of frequencies spotted on radio? Strange (8)

21           I note second street is nearest the centre (6)

24           Deceased interred in burial at Evesham (4)

25           Congregation heading off for bar (4)

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