Puzzles and Fun

1  ‘The baby in my — leaped for joy’ (Luke 1:44) (4) 3 A ‘don’t know’ in matters of faith (8)

9  In the distant past (Jeremiah 2:20) (4,3)

10 Armada (1 Kings 10:22) (5)

11 Where Moses was confronted with the burning bush (Exodus 3:1) (5)

12 Hair colour indicative of skin infection (Leviticus 13:30) (6)

14 ‘The worries of this life and the — of wealth choke it, making it unfruitful’ (Matthew 13:22) (13)

17 Expel (2 Kings 13:23) (6)

19 What Jesus wrapped round his waist when he washed his disciples’ feet (John 13:4) (5)

22 The sixth plague to afflict the Egyptians (Exodus 9:9) (5)

23 For nine (anag.) (7)

24 Where there is no time (Psalm 93:2) (8)

25 Goliath’s challenge to the Israelite army in the Valley of Elah: ‘This day I — the ranks of Israel!’ (1 Samuel 17:10) (4)

1  ‘I will become angry with them and forsake them; I — — my face from them’ (Deuteronomy 31:17) (4,4)

2  Usual description of prophets such as Amos, Hosea, Micah, and so on (5)

4  ‘They cannot see the light of the gospel of the — — — , who is the image of God’ (2 Corinthians 4:4) (5,2,6)

5  An animal’s internal edible parts (Leviticus 4:11) (5)

6  Popular 20th-century religious novel by Lloyd C. Douglas, which became a 1953 film starring Richard Burton (3,4)

7  ‘A — on a hill cannot be hidden’ (Matthew 5:14) (4)

8  One of the exiles, a descendant of Bebai, who married a foreign woman (Ezra 10:28) (6)

13 Old Testament hymn-singing (8)

15 ‘And O what transport of delight from thy pure — floweth’ (7)

16 Of felt (anag.) (3,3)

18 ‘So — the — sets you free, you will be free indeed’ (John 8:36) (2,3)

20 Comes between ‘bad’ and ‘worst’ (John 5:14) (5)

21 ‘Neither height nor depth... will be — to separate us from the love of God’ (Romans 8:39) (4)