Across
- 2. To God — case-sensitive, not possessive.
- 4. Now — but missing what customarily follows.
- 5. Flesh, cut from a longer assertion.
- 8. Born — but not as completely as you first think.
- 9. Cry heard when repairs finally work.HODIENATUS —
- 10. today — still missing its hinge.
- 11. Contained — though several things here are not.
- 14. To God, peace — order enforced.
- 16. Former monks’ rooms, losing their heart.
- 18. Peace, but only after surgery.
- 19. Child born — prophecy read without its gift.
- 20. Proper elevation — once what was lost is returned.
- 23. Earth — where peace is promised, but short a letter.
Down
- 1. Where praise starts — and stubbornly stops.
- 3. Done — but only after something else is restored.
- 6. Hope expressed — one letter short of fulfilment.
- 7. Praise, begun loudly but left hanging.
- 12. Incarnation, stripped of grammar.
- 13. Word, before it sheds what later makes it real.
- 15. Child, once what prophecy gives him is removed.
- 17. Visitors — though the obvious number misleads.
- 21. “Is”: arrives late, repairs damage.
- 22. Fashionable — or performing containment, depending.