PRIZE CROSSWORD

No. 969

Across

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Strauss opera based on John the Baptist's nemesis (6)

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'But when you pray...close the door and pray to your Father, who is ------' [Matt/NIV] (6) Sobriquet Isaiah gave to

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the Messiah (6,2,5) Sermonizer (8) '"...There will be no more death" or mourning or crying or ----...' [Rev/NIV]

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(4) 'Terrors startle him from every side and dog his every ----' [Job/NIV] (4) Passages of scripture recited in church (8) Popular name for 'Provincial Episcopal Visitors' (6,7) 'When Jesus stepped ......, he was met by a demon-possessed man from the town' [Luke/NIV] (6) 'I called to my ------ but they betrayed me' [Lam/NIV] (6)

Down

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'Then you will understand what is right and just and ----....' [Prov/NIV] (4) Wife of a Herod Antipas official healed by Jesus [Luke] (6) Canaanite town given to the tribe of Naphtali after conquest by the Israelites [Josh] (6) 'If it is burned up, the builder will ----- loss, but yet will be saved' [1 Cor/NIV] (6) 'The child is not dead but ------' [Mark/NIV] (6) Doctrine (8)

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'The -------- will vanish, the mockers will disappear...' [Isa/NIV] (8) Biblical character, in Hebrew 'hawwah', meaning 'living' (3) 'Joseph's master took him and put him in ------...' [Gen/NIV] (6) 'To go into...the tops of the -----rocks, for fear of the Lord...' [Isa/KJV] (6) 'Then the Lord said to Moses..."Say...Move away from the tents of Korah, Dathan and ------"' [Num/NIV] (6) 'Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body -----' [Matt/NIV] (2,4) 'Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning he devours the ----, in the evening he divides the plunder' [Gen/NIV] (4)