Complete Clue List
Across
1. Vatican figures responsible for canonising saints
5. Treats with disdain
9. Nationality of St Rose of Lima (August 23), first canonised saint born in the Americas
11. Islam adherent
12. German fascists whose Auschwitz concentration camp murdered St Edith Stein (August 9)
13. Situation demanding prompt action
15. Instructed (also see 7D)
16. Right this minute
18. Game requiring puzzle solutions to get out of a locked space (6,4)
21. Sixth sense, for short
23. St Augustine of Hippo was the ____ of St Monica (both August 27)
24. Abused; St Monica was ____ by her husband Patricius, who had a violent temper and dissolute ways
25. St Edith Stein and family member Rosa were killed in a poison ____ chamber
28. Apprehend; the Gestapo were ordered to ____ Jewish converts in the Netherlands (the Stein sisters)
30. Roseau is the capital of the Caribbean's Commonwealth of ____, named after St Dominic de Guzmán
31. Religious organisation; St Dominic de Guzmán (August 8) founded the ____ of Preachers (Dominicans)
32. Nursery rhyme: "Hot cross buns! One ____, two ____, Hot cross buns!" (Both same; 1,5)
33. Operatic texts
34. Sites for rites
35. Asset; St Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga set up "Hogar de Cristo" (home of Christ) a ____ for the homeless
Down
1. Chilli; to avoid marriage, St Rose of Lima masked her beauty by blistering her face with a hot ____
2. Prolonged weather condition which may lead to 27D (2,4)
3. Visible, not hidden (2,4)
4. St Maximilian Kolbe (August 14) was a Polish ____ friar who died in Auschwitz death camp in 1941
6. Wars to reclaim the Holy Land from 11A control: events during the life of St Dominic de Guzmán
7. Faith; Chilean Jesuit St Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga (August 18) 15A ____ to others
8. Indications
10. Aye's opposite
11. "Good Will Hunting" setting (init.)
14. "For whither thou ____, I will go;" (Ruth 1:16 [KJV])
17. Classify (UK spelling)
19. St Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787) was proclaimed a Doctor of the ____ Catholic Church (1871)
20. A PAN MADE cooked Mexican turnover (anag.)
21. With food, somehow REUNITES the very hungry (anag.)
22. Captive; St Edith Stein and St Maximilian Kolbe were both a ____ in Auschwitz concentration camp
25. "Buon ____!" Greeting to Italian St Alphonsus Liguori (August 1), bishop and Redemptorists founder
26. Title for a nun; form of address for St Edith Stein who was a Discalced Carmelite
27. Extreme shortage of food; when ____ struck, St Dominic de Guzmán sold his possessions to help others
29. Attempt
30. Spain's Costa ____ Sol