June 2004
Organists' Crossword 7	Show Menu

Correct entries to Crossword 6 arrived from E. Ashmore, Mary Carrick, Anne Corry, Eric de Courcy, Aileen Godden, John Godden, Valerie Johnston, Robert Keogh, Iris Maguire, Barry Magill, Sheila Pigott, Hilary Poole, Derek Seymour, Adrian Somerfield, William Yeoman, as well as one anonymous entry. The full solution to the puzzle appears below.

The lucky two whose names came out of the hat were Mary Carrick, organist of St Michael’s Castlepollard, and William Yeoman from Terenure. Well Done to both; some musical notebooks have been sent. Puzzle 7 follows.

Clues Across

1. Tune for the hymn Guide me O Thou great Jehovah (10)

8. Powerful 4 foot reed organ stop (6)

10. A German organ (5)

11. Seasonal alternative to the Venite at Morning Prayer (6,7)

12. “Jesus shall ..... where’re the sun” (5)

13. Denomination that asserts the unity of God as opposed to the Trinuty (9)

14. Charles, 18th-century English composer and organist includes a car-rental company (6)

a car-rental company (6)

15. Wachet ..., Bach’s Sleepers Awake (3)

16. Bach wrote lots of two-part and three-part ones (10)

18. Religious pamphlets or leaflets (10)

19. Famous public school that has a boating song (4)

20. The wind one in the organ holds air (5)

21. (5)

22. An addition to a quaver makes it smaller! (4)

24. Otherwise Whit Sunday (9)

26. Hail Maria (3)

28. Manual aid to registration (6)

29. Beasts that roar after their prey in the Harvest anthem (5)

31. Original editor of the Dictionary of Music and Musicians, or the Ash of the hymn tune (5)

32, “And this shall be a ? unto you: you shall find the babe..........” (4)

33. Jeremiah, who composed the Trumpet Voluntary (7)

34. Kent Association of Organists (1,1,1)

36. Have fun and perform on a musical instrument (4)

37. The Cornopean is such a stop (4)

Clues Down

1. Very important church officials (5,7)

2. A canticle at Evening Prayer (10

3. The lady of Troy (5)

4. An admirable mass by Haydn (6)

5. To which tune the hymn “Fight the good fight” is set (4,6)

6. Modified male singer used in churches choirs in the 18th century (8)

7. To which saint Anne Marsden Thomas’s church in London is dedicated (5)

8. A seat at the old choir organ (5)

9. 4 ft flue stop with a slightly reedy or nasal quality (5,5)

13. Of one voice (6)

15. This year (2004) it occurred on 20th May (9)

17. Palindromic principle or  doctrine (5)

19. A piano concerto for a penguin! (7)

20. Patron saint of music (7)

21. Organ stop with more than one pipe to each note (7)

23. The biblical priest in Samuel (3)

25. Repetitive traditional carol with harmony by Stainer (6)

26. The messenger in 23 down (5)

27. Requested (5)

28. Slightly, perhaps crescendo or rallentando (4)

30. Mr Stravinsky (4)

32. Above the clear blue .... in the children’s hymn (3)

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