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Bradworthy News - June 2001

Crossword, by Eric Mitchell

You couldn’t do it. I get to keep the £5, I’m off to the pub - see if you can get your heads around this one. Bet you can’t. Ha!

Astrologers are disliked equally by scientists and church leaders. This is interesting when you consider how much those two groups normally hate one another. Their mutual antipathy dates back to the time when the Church refused to accept that the Earth goes round the Sun. They called the idea heretical and banned all books on the topic. Finally, scientists are getting their revenge. A new study, called Neurotheology, uses cerebral scans to explain why people have mystic visions. It attributes a sense of the divine to an excess of electrical activity in the temporal lobe. According to the scientists, God only talks to you when there’s something wrong with your brain.

Good luck, Mousey

Across

1 Ladylike? (10)
8 Passage taken from a book (7)
9 Prize money (5)
10 Look at, very closely (4)
11 Units of length (4)
12 Tree (3)
14 Was determined to go camping! (6)
15 Set aside or distribute as a share(6)
18 Something to put in the water (3)
20 Something bad in Seville (4)
21 A place for lawful detention (4)
23 The cause of many tears? (5)
24 Slaving away (7)
25 Meriting shame or dishonour (10)
crossword grid

Down

1 Entrance (7)
2 Solid company? (4)
3 Bit of a mixture (6)
4 Favoritism in the family (8)
5 Neatly brief and concise (5)
6 Blessing (11)
7 Specialised expressions indigenous to a particular field (11)
13 Within (8)
16 Form amentalimage (7)
17 Supressed snigger (6)
19 To stir to action or feeling (5)
22 Not the sort of thing to go out on (4)
crossword answers

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