Issue 3: Cryptic Crossword
Across
1. Singing as confused lady mops (8) PSALMODY
4. Clubs hurry to obtain continent (6) CHASTE
7. Financier, abandoning small whim, coerces a jig disastrously (8,6) WOJCIECHMAGIER
10. Forced walking all the way to somewhere in Wales (5,7) ROUTEMARCHES
15. Saul transformed by Latin praise (4) LAUS
17. Laughter at Sant’Angelo, largely (3) LOL
18. One might eat this on Fridays for the hell of it, I’ve heard? (7) HALIBUT
19. Endlessly need what she was before marriage (3) NEE
20. French abbey losing early bar – it’s for the sauce! (4) ROUX
21. Twisted against power, deliver ring (12) CONTRAPPOSTO
26. He has fortune told to enhance rad buzz, strangely (14) NEBUCHADNEZZAR
28. When hundreds go before a pagan deity, there is harmony (6) CHORUS
29. The Lord’s lands sensed me failing (8) DEMESNE
Down
1. Machinery Fr Matthew uses to keep up energy? (5,5) POWERPLANT
2. Permissible to remove cardinal from interview (5) LICIT
3. Fish having come back up, called a medic (3) DOC
5. Abandoned unto huge French Protestant (8) HUGUENOT
6. She takes masculine boatbuilder’s son (4) SHEM
8. A tree? In Israel, maybe so (3) ELM
9. She, compared to Herodias, lacks what is hateful, it’s said (3) HER
11. Loan shark catches ancient city in deceptive ruse (6) USURER
12. Valiant drunk carries off New Testament into Spanish city (5) AVILA
13. This is something Spaniards say round us to the Anointed (6) OLEOUS
14. Second-in-command has horribly lax ironers (4,6) ALEXNORRIS
16. Ethiopian bishop assigns cardinal to Nigerian capital, removing Jesuit first (5) ABUNA
18. Honour lost an ancient city, but with a couple of conveniences, we say, it can produce a modern one (8) HONOLULU
22. Devastated Aaron leaves behind a ring for his messenger (3) RNA
23. Domestic goddess’s husband? (3) PAN
24. Moves slowly having put zoo back outside elephants (5) OOZES
25. Tyrant replaces hero’s leader with knight (4) NERO
27. What you give the Devil when you return his books? (3) DUE