Eye - 31 May 2024
Friends in stitches
Crack those knuckles and get your pens at the ready, Friends – the second in a series of crosswords exploring the Quaker Tapestry is ready for you!
This time Eye delves into some of the varied and passionate concerns celebrated by the those creative stitches. You can find out more about all the panels at: https://bit.ly/QuakerTapestry.
Across
2. Friends’ 1783 protest to parliament against the slave trade is depicted in a panel describing slavery as ‘a ________ to humanity’ (8)
3. A panel based on Advice 19 from the 1994 version of Advices & queries reflects Friends’ concern for sustainability, urging viewers to ‘_______ the beauty and variety of his world’ (7)
7. Over 6,000 Quakers refused conscription during world war one.
The panel about Conscientious Objection shows some of the roles Friends undertook as part of alternative service, including one that works with trees (8)
10. ‘Innocent’ trades were those where Quakers asked a fair, fixed price for goods, and emphasised that the Peace Testimony meant they couldn’t manufacture weapons. A range of the trades Friends were involved with are shown, including something to do with iron (8)
11. Friends witnessing for peace are celebrated in a panel entitled ‘Quaker ______ for Peace’ (6)
12. ‘Publishers of the Truth’ is the title of one panel, dedicated to the work of early Friends in publishing Quaker books, pamphlets and broadsheets. _____ played a large role in this work (5)
Down
1. Nineteenth-century Friends in big cities founded First Day schools to help men and women learn to read.
A motto appeared on the panel about the Adult Schools Movement, ‘____ not dogma,
____ not creeds’ (4/4)
4. The red and black ____, first used by Friends during the 1870 Franco-Prussian war, appears on the panel devoted to Quaker relief work overseas (4)
5. Concern for the treatment of prisoners and undertaking campaigns against the death penalty are some of the things Friends have done in relation to ________ justice (8)
6. Quaker work in establishing Peace Embassies is depicted in one panel, with the two _____ ‘co-operation is better than conflict’ imagery running along the bottom (5)
8. Prominent Friends in business and their pioneering policies for industrial welfare is at the foreground of a panel that features families such as ________ (8)
9. A panel illustrating Quaker relief work in Britain was embroidered in the Manchester area and uses Friends’ response to the ________ massacre in 1819 as an example (8)
You can find the answers here.
