Cryptic crossword No 2,121
Tue 26 Nov 2024, set byMethuselah
Special Instructions: Originally appeared in the Independent 05/09/23. Republished with kind permission.
Across
- Singer knocking back cans beside church (6)
- Getting gospel, we lay off the Book of Numbers (6,5)
- Contrary utilitarianists taking moral high ground? (5)
- Romeo abandons theatre stage, having such an epiphany? (9)
- Spirit's death reversed (4)
- Follower ultimately impressed by disappearing act by carpenter? (10)
- Church skinned alive bastard using motor? (9)
- See 5
- Saint goes behind tree for number one (5)
- Fickle type arranging meal with Enoch or one with Lamech (9)
- Old man alias occasionally included by writer – so what?! (10)
- Lady's heavenly meal doesn't come with starter (4)
- Your opponent traps his own rook before struggle for white square (9)
- Revised AV is a Mosaic source of laws (5,6)
- European chap moved by Jesus' original resting place (6)
- Devout lady's fella swapping masochism for sadism (6)
Down
- Primarily, not killed or swallowed by someone eating a certain way? (3-6)
- End of story read to audience (4)
- Driven by water, hot and cold air duly circulating inside (9)
- Old address for blokes in Middle Eastern nation (5)
- Momentous feast continues to be the opposite of a downer (4,6)
- Crosses which Job and Eliphaz would bear together (5)
- See 28a
- Rules which come from the heavens, we're told (6)
- Naturist trips, making more coitus tricky (10)
- Comes back to life near askew rocks (9)
- Innocent then mature after gobbling garden's top fruit (9)
- Make hungry religious people go after fellow (6)
- Distinction made by holy woman when describing American church (6)
- Short bit of Bible given new introduction (5)
- Tablet with a number of commandments taken down (5)
- Act of Judas that's symbolised by a cross (4)
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