The Mail on Sunday Prize Crossword 1478 Sunday February 27th 2011

[bob561941]

8a international airline based in austria (6)
12a german astronomer the first to measure the distance of a star other than the sun(6)
14a innermost membrane enveloping an embryo (6)
16a in the new terstament one of a group not believing in the resurrection s???????
Thanks

[EGTB]

8 Qantas
12 Bessel

[boxtops]

16 - sceptics ??

[EGTB]

14a Amnion
16a Sadducee

[ronayne]

amnion?

[bob561941]

16a sceptics or sadduce ? i quite like sceptics on the other hand it could be sadduce
there's only one way to find out

[mahler28]

sadducee what about 17a

[EGTB]

16a Sadducee is correct as the first D is needed for 8 down the U for 9 down and e for 10 down

[EGTB]

17a Lemma

[Duncer]

Question Author
16a sceptics or sadduce ? i quite like sceptics on the other hand it could be sadduce
there's only one way to find out.............................

FIGHT!!!!