Church Times 26 April 1996

ACROSS

1 Rationing arose after trouble – here’s the replacement system (14)

9 Give a picture of quiet holy man avoiding start of service (5)

10 A second individual implicates one in calumny (9)

11 Hope radio’s carrying La Boheme? (5)

12 Toccatas to be played with very short notes (8)

14 Turn out to be still tight, returning last of booze (9)

16 Abridged the Kipling poem about English villain (5)

17 Fraction taking mostly narrow road? (5)

19 Story-teller: ‘New edition of True Romance doesn’t need me!’ (9)

21 Old Scratch? (8)

22 Times? Encountered turning back page one (5)

25 Powerlessness? Nice poem scribbled about ending of it (9)

26 What’s once possessed boater, say, to go round both ends of dykes? (5)

27 All come to work with revised translation of Bible provided by me? (5,9)

DOWN

2 The cream among the literati (5)

3 Pull in – the Northern haulier’s coming up (7)

4 King of Amalekites is a joke (4)

5 Playing nice tempi will limit adult showing undue haste (10)

6 A jar containing mostly succulent fruit (7)

7 Doing impressions? I’m the very thing, having sent up musical (9)

8 No end of horsemen study horse’s record, getting first? That’s not on the usual track! (13)

9 System of doctrine that has unconventional pastor smitten (13)

13 Holy rite and love in US city (10)

15 Bishop’s place is ruined, needing work put in (9)

18 Indicates one had taken up with revolutionary set (7)

20 Reputed to include church with small indentations (7)

23 Gong sounded finally during dinner? (5)

24 Simple characters appearing in Rome recently (4)