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Crossword No. 1756

by
23 January 2026

by David Stickley

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Across

1 Real revolution backed head of international board (9)

6 Part of bishop’s almighty devotional song (5)

9 Did the butterfly, perhaps, start to irritate religious master? (5)

10 Returning fighter pilots, following turbulent air home, create trouble (5,4)

11 Grave markings varied heaps outside mine (8)

12 People ordered six vehicles? (6)

14 Noble one featured in — of course — regular publications (8)

15 Mark’s letters enclosed in Christmas cards (4)

18 Brewer’s equipment, as featured in biblical books (4)

20 Catholic and English cleric giving up right for court (8)

24 Special arrangement of rail is coiled (6)

25 Indifference is shown in remaking of sitcom (8)

27 Godly one turned grey before mass in view of family group (9)

28 Sail — one may be pulled back in middle of navigation? (5)

29 Senior metalworker not using tungsten (5)

30 Believer, concealing urge, almost doing for old miracle worker (9)

 

Down

1 Unravelling of verse inspired by quiet prayer (6)

2 Daily paper distributed without nonsense freely (7)

3 Dock taking on a managed vessel (8)

4 Most of tribe upset with new chapel in native country (10)

5 Beheaded scoundrel having a destructive influence (4)

6 Priest is enclosing beginning and end of ecclesiastic summary (6)

7 A leader of evangelism leaving America translated old biblical language (7)

8 The church male, elected, is judge (8)

13 Agent runs from entrance in regret (10)

16 Leave rotten cedars in cemetery (4,4)

17 Stone church’s musician is a part-time journalist (8)

19 Cast admitting gratuity is a regular clerical payment (7)

21 Church, one opposing alcohol (7)

22 Mary’s first to get to Jesus’s resting place (6)

23 Follower of John mostly after devil’s power (6)

26 Picked up period issue (4)

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