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The Parish Magazine January 2022

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CROSSWORD<br />

1 2 3 4 5 6 7<br />

8<br />

9 10<br />

11<br />

13 14 15<br />

19<br />

17 18<br />

16<br />

20 21<br />

22 23<br />

Across<br />

Down<br />

12<br />

1 - Disappearing gradually (8)<br />

5 - Reckless; ready to react violently (7-5)<br />

5 Reckless; 6 ready - Dark pigment to react in skin (7,5) (7)<br />

6 Dark pigment 7 - Utters in (4) skin (7)<br />

8 - Not staying the same throughout (12)<br />

12 - Person of varied learning (8)<br />

14 - Crying (7)<br />

12 Person of varied learning (8)<br />

16 - Banish; eliminate (6)<br />

7 15 16 6 6 11 14 21 18 11 2 11<br />

19 26 16 4 19 11<br />

18 16 17 16 22 8 23 23 20<br />

7 16 15 26 12 11 19 22 1 23<br />

11 11 1 21 7 11 6 10 13<br />

17 10 15 15 8 22 11 1 22 10<br />

16 11 19 10 19 15<br />

11 19 3 18 10 25 8 22 11 22<br />

1 17 19 9 21 11 19 5 1<br />

19 1 3 15 19 21 6 10 18 2<br />

17 18 10 24 9 10 8 16 8<br />

22 11 19 10 18 21<br />

16 1 16 18 3 11 22 9 8 9 21 12<br />

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z<br />

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13<br />

S<br />

E<br />

14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26<br />

D<br />

SUDOKU<br />

Each of the nine blocks has to contain all the<br />

numbers 1-9 within its squares. Each number<br />

can only appear once in a row, column or box.<br />

WORDSEARCH FOR THE MAGI<br />

Search for 20 words hidden in the grid above<br />

that are from the story below ...<br />

Magi from the east – it isn’t a lot to go on.<br />

<strong>The</strong> magi were a religious caste devoted to<br />

astrology, divination and the interpretation of<br />

dreams. Some scholars believe these magi<br />

came from southern Arabia, where the Queen<br />

of Sheba had lived. She would have learned<br />

about the coming Messiah from Solomon. In<br />

Matthew’s gospel the magi ask Herod: ‘Where<br />

is the one who has been born king of the Jews?<br />

We saw his star in the east and have come<br />

to worship him.’ So it is possible that Queen<br />

of Sheba’s story of Messiah for Israel had<br />

survived. One thing that supports the theory<br />

that the magi came from southern Arabia is<br />

this: if you study any map of Palestine as it<br />

was during biblical times, you will find that<br />

the old Arabian caravan routes all entered<br />

Palestine ‘from the east’.<br />

<strong>The</strong> <strong>Parish</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> - <strong>January</strong> <strong>2022</strong> 39<br />

PUZZLE PAGE — the answers will be published in the next issue<br />

Across<br />

Down<br />

- anger (4)<br />

1 Intense anger (4)<br />

- (8)<br />

1 Disappearing<br />

2 - Profits<br />

gradually<br />

(5)<br />

(8)<br />

3 Outfits (8)<br />

- hair style (7) 2 Profits (5) 4 - Possessors (6)<br />

9 Sophisticated hair style (7)<br />

10 - Embed; type of filling (5) 4 Possessors (6)<br />

10 Embed; type of filling (5)<br />

11 - Disheartening (12)<br />

11 Disheartening (12)<br />

13 - Freshest (6)<br />

15<br />

13<br />

-<br />

Freshest<br />

Wild horse (6)<br />

(6)<br />

7 Utters (4)<br />

17 15 - Shrewdness Wild horse (12) (6)<br />

8 Not staying the same (12)<br />

20 17 - Shrewdness Burning (5) (12)<br />

21 20 - Powdered Burning spice (5) (7)<br />

14 Crying (7)<br />

221 - Vigorously Powdered (8) spice (7)<br />

18 - Frostily (5)<br />

16 Banish; eliminate (6)<br />

23 22 - Legendary Vigorously story (4) (8)<br />

19 - Cool and collected (4)<br />

18 Frostily (5)<br />

23 Legendary story (4)<br />

19 Cool and collected (4)<br />

CODEWORD<br />

MAGI<br />

EAST<br />

RELIGIOUS<br />

CASTE<br />

ASTROLOGY<br />

DIVINATION<br />

DREAMS<br />

A question for Epiphany: What do you call a camel with three humps?<br />

SCHOLARS<br />

SOUTHERN<br />

ARABIA<br />

QUEEN<br />

SHEBA<br />

MESSIAH<br />

SOLOMON<br />

HEROD<br />

KING<br />

STAR<br />

WORSHIP<br />

PALESTINE<br />

CARAVAN<br />

December<br />

Solutions<br />

CROSSWORD<br />

W I P E S C A B B A R D<br />

O Y R O E S E<br />

R E L I E F S L A P S E<br />

S O L M O I M<br />

H E N C E F O R W A R D<br />

I N S T I R<br />

P O L I T E T H E N C E<br />

S O L S E L<br />

I N V E R T E B R A T E<br />

E G S Y E G A<br />

D E B T S M A L L E T S<br />

E O L I T N E<br />

N E W L Y W E D S T U D<br />

CODEWORD<br />

L A U N C H E D A J A R<br />

U P O X E A E<br />

G R O O M H L A Z E D<br />

E N M A E Z D<br />

C O L L E C T I V E<br />

A P N E T E N<br />

S H R E W S W R A S S E<br />

S O E L O T D<br />

I N F E A S I B L E<br />

S F L Q Y U P<br />

T H E F T U S U S H I<br />

E R H O I E E<br />

D U S K C R U S A D E R<br />

SUDOKU<br />

WORDSEARCH CHRISTMAS<br />

CHRISTMAS QUIZ<br />

1. St Nicholas<br />

2. 1,401<br />

3. Charles Dickens<br />

4. STAY<br />

5. Phoenix, Arizona 1967<br />

6. To play with your toys<br />

7. Phoenix, Arizona 1967<br />

Edwardje, dreamstime.com

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