Children's Society Boys Will Be Boys C/D 31 Dec

[granny grump]

Please can you help with the following the quiz setter says think masculine

42. A currant (actual spelling) running back against the mainstream ( no number of letters)
69. A name sometimes applied to a chapel or religious meeting house (8)
72. This top lady was a man famous as the actor of ( 4 2 4)
82. September 29th (no number of letters)

[JJ109]

42 Eddy ?

[Sam1960]

42. eddy

[Mamyalynne]

72 general feeling is that is should be 'Author of' - a hymn

[JJ109]

82 Michaelmas

[JJ109]

69. Basilica

[Sam1960]

69. ebenezer

[Buenchico]

^^^ I'll go with Sam's answer.

From the OED's definition of 'Ebenezer':
"Occasionally (like Bethel, Zoar, Zion, etc.) adopted by Methodists, Baptists, Independents, etc. as the name of a particular chapel or meeting-house. Hence used contemptuously as a synonym for ‘dissenting chapel’."

[granny grump]

Brilliant thank you all for your help

For 83 An untitled man I have John Doe (no number of letters) Do you think that this is correct or perhaps it should be Commoner?

[Jackdaw33]

Rock of Ages was written by Augustus Toplady.

[JJ109]

possibly Esquire
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/esquire

:Esquire is a formal title that can be used after a man's name if he has no other title, especially on an envelope that is addressed to him.

[granny grump]

Thank you jj109