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Across
9 Prophet with a little house by the water (5)
10 Six books with a witch worried upper-class church (9)
11 Merriment with a bishop in church land (5)
12 Franciscan friar with princess cut short by queen (9)
13 New minister with a mineral about to have dinner (7)
14 Praise the Lord with cries of exultation by a girl (7)
17 Turbulent scene with a playwright in ancient Greece (6)
18 Instrument with a tuning peg accepted by a group (6)
21 Interpreter with most of text e.g. translated into Early English (7)
22 Fighting man with a sister embracing veteran (7)
23 Sacred relic with representation of glory offered in greeting (4,5)
26 Copper with ram severly criticised (3,2)
27 Total abstainer concerned with practice in church (9)
28 Tenor with odd solo instruments (5)
Down
1 Tender Son of God (3,4,8)
2 Rare dominating influence like church with new measure (10)
3 A rebel can’t upset a mobile temple (10)
4 Dense alien wood (7)
5 Yard behind former chief bishop’s office (7)
6 Filthy place has finally become an eyesore (4)
7 Muslim mystic to petition for payment we hear (4)
8 Worship of Ganesh e.g. (the laughing morph is transformed) (15)
15 Epic with St Paul converted to petition earnestly (10)
16 Frenchman’s word of disapproval and discord when denied right sort of literature (3-7)
19 Monarch’s privileges — the opposite of first-class beer (7)
20 Something added to change a book used in church (7)
24 Courage seen when leader’s lost fortune (4)
25 An animal to attack vigorously (4) |