| Monastery supremo |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
17 May 2026 |
| see 12 Across (5) |
Mirror Quiz |
11 May 2026 |
| The -, 1820 novel by Walter Scott (5) |
Mirror Quiz |
08 May 2026 |
| Leader of a monastery |
The Times Specialist Sunday |
03 May 2026 |
| Monastery head (5) |
Puzzler |
29 Apr 2026 |
| Monastery head |
LA Times Daily |
24 Apr 2026 |
| Head of a group of monks |
Puzzler Backwords |
10 Mar 2026 |
| Big brother? |
LA Times Daily |
15 Feb 2026 |
| Monastery leader |
Newsday |
11 Jan 2026 |
| Head monk |
LA Times Daily |
21 Dec 2025 |
| Top monk |
LA Times Daily |
07 Nov 2025 |
| Monastery figure |
USA Today |
26 Oct 2025 |
| Head of a group of monks |
Puzzler Backwords |
17 Oct 2025 |
| Monastery head |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
15 Oct 2025 |
| Religious title whose name comes from the Hebrew for "father" |
New York Times |
12 Oct 2025 |
| Brothers' boss |
Newsday |
09 Oct 2025 |
| Monastery head |
New York Times |
01 Oct 2025 |
| Senior monk |
The Telegraph Quick |
15 Sep 2025 |
| Religious leader and a bishop on program |
The Times Cryptic |
25 Aug 2025 |
| The -, 1820 novel by Walter Scott (5) |
Mirror Quiz |
23 Aug 2025 |
| Head of a monastery |
The Telegraph Plusword |
21 Aug 2025 |
| Monastic head (5) |
Puzzler |
10 Aug 2025 |
| Head of a monastery |
New York Times Mini |
31 Jul 2025 |
| Hold off blood-bath for monk (5) |
|
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| Monastic officer in drab bottle-party? (5) |
|
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| An ecclesiastic taking boat: out round Beachy Head (5) |
|
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| Male head of abbey (5) |
|
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| Leader of a group of monks (5) |
|
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| Man in authority pulled up graduate using automated assistance |
|
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| Russ ___-- , comedian (5) |
|
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| Leader of brothers |
New York Times |
05 Jun 2025 |
| One having two books part of Bible for churchmen (5) |
|
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| Sailor has half a bottle with a male superior |
|
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| Monastic superior |
The Times Concise |
23 May 2025 |
| Monk superior (5) |
|
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| Head of a group of monks (5) |
Puzzler Backwords |
20 May 2025 |
| Russ ___, star of Russ ___ Show (5) |
|
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| A babe oddly turned to superior (5) |
|
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| Chief monk |
|
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| Brothers' keeper? |
Wall Street Journal |
05 Apr 2025 |
| Monastery main man |
|
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| Monastery man |
Wall Street Journal |
18 Mar 2025 |
| The head of a monastery (5) |
|
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| One having two books, part of Bible for churchman (5) |
|
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| Monastery VIP |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
04 Mar 2025 |
| The superior of a monastery for men (5) |
|
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| Monastic head |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
23 Feb 2025 |
| Top monk travels by boat with bishop |
|
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| Man on a mission? |
LA Times Daily |
09 Feb 2025 |
| Monastery head identifies comedian and actor Russ (5) |
|
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| Russ ___, comedian/actor |
Puzzler Backwords |
24 Jan 2025 |
| Monastery figure |
The Telegraph Plusword |
19 Jan 2025 |
| Monastery boss |
|
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| As a holy man, he's superior (5) |
|
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| Monk superior (S) |
|
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| Good man's boat wrecked around Beachy Head (5) |
|
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| Article on air gun gets back to religious leader (5) |
|
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| Head of a community of monks |
|
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| A good man, superior anyway |
|
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| Russ - - -, actor and comedian |
|
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| He's good, giving a sailor a half bottle |
|
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| Community leader - a baronet - in bad odour? The opposite |
|
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| Monastery head |
Thomas Joseph |
31 Oct 2024 |
| The -, 1820 novel by Walter Scott |
Mirror Quiz |
29 Oct 2024 |
| Chief monk as in "The ___ of Canterbury" |
|
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| He should have taken his orders after Russ maybe |
|
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| Good man, but disheartened when the boat rocks (5) |
|
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| Russ - - -, actor and comedian |
|
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| Boat set off with British cleric (5) |
|
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| Funny man Russ follows Newton in Devon (5) |
|
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| Head of a religious order (5) |
The Guardian Quick |
25 Sep 2024 |
| He overrules his brothers |
|
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| Superior of an abbey of monks (5) |
|
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| Monk wrecked boat round front of bay (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
13 Sep 2024 |
| Monastery head |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
12 Sep 2024 |
| Top of the order? |
New York Times |
22 Aug 2024 |
| Monastery figure |
The Telegraph Plusword |
19 Aug 2024 |
| Head monk |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
13 Aug 2024 |
| Monastery head's answer books: Old Testament |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
31 Jul 2024 |
| Clergy member |
Mirror Quick |
28 Jul 2024 |
| Boat excursion with British cleric |
Mirror Cryptic |
28 Jul 2024 |
| Monk sounds like former PM (5) |
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| Monastery VIP |
LA Times Mini |
21 Jul 2024 |
| Monk and rabbi both undressed |
The Times Sunday Cryptic |
21 Jul 2024 |
| Though good, he makes a bad start in a faulty boat |
|
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| It takes a good man to manoeuvre a boat round Beachy Head (5) |
|
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| A couple of books returned to Big Brother? |
|
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| Monastery head |
The Telegraph Quick |
17 Jun 2024 |
| He religiously manoeuvres the boat out of Birkenhead (5) |
|
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| Brotherhood leader |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
22 May 2024 |
| Leading monk starts to admit both brothers on time (5) |
|
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| Leading monk (5) |
|
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| Chief monk in a monastery |
|
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| Make the old boy tab an ecclesiastic (5) |
|
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| Monastery leader |
Universal |
11 May 2024 |
| Head monk to grab bottom piece (5) |
|
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| Religious man followed Newton in West Country town (5) |
|
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| Superior type of blood, but essentially different |
|
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| Abbey head (5) |
|
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| Superior sort? |
New York Times |
19 Apr 2024 |
| An ecclesiastic and rating, both curtailed (5) |
|
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| A father to baby given no end of a turn (5) |
|
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| Monastery leader |
Commuter |
18 Apr 2024 |
| Newton _, town south of Exeter (5) |
|
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| English musician, actor and comedian whose characters include Basildon Bond, Cooperman and C U Jimmy (4,5) |
|
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| US mockumentary series, - Elementary (5) |
|
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| The -, 1820 novel by Walter Scott |
Mirror Quiz |
01 Apr 2024 |
| Order leader to take beachhead in rowing boat (5) |
|
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| Monk and sailor with black books (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
27 Mar 2024 |
| Monks' superior (5) |
|
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| Grab bottle to offer head of house |
The Guardian Cryptic |
25 Mar 2024 |
| Good man, though he made a bad start in wrecking a boat (5) |
|
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| Monk in charge of a monastery (5) |
|
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| Newton ___, town south of Exeter (5) |
|
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| Though superior, his boat was wrecked around Beachy Head (5) |
|
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| Monastery leader |
Newsday |
20 Feb 2024 |
| Monkish head to grab both parts (5) |
|
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| He's good to give a seaman half a bottle (5) |
|
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| Comedian and actor Russ is to grab bottled portion (5) |
|
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| Religious leader finds sailor with a missing boat (5) |
|
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| Former PM sounds like man of the cloth (5) |
|
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| Russ - - -, actor and comedian |
|
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| Monk and a couple of bishops with holy books |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
11 Jan 2024 |
| Monastery head |
LA Times Daily |
24 Dec 2023 |
| Monk and a couple of bishops with holy books |
The Guardian Quiptic |
18 Dec 2023 |
| Monk and a couple of bishops with holy books (5) |
|
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| Superior of a community of monks |
Mirror Classic |
07 Dec 2023 |
| Newton ___, Devon town (5) |
Puzzler |
23 Nov 2023 |
| A pair of bishops at scripture, one wearing a mitre perhaps |
The Guardian Cryptic |
20 Nov 2023 |
| Russ ___, comedian/actor |
Puzzler Backwords |
10 Nov 2023 |
| One with many priors, maybe |
New York Times |
09 Nov 2023 |
| Old comedian almost getting head in order |
The Times Cryptic |
24 Oct 2023 |
| Monastery leader |
Newsday |
22 Oct 2023 |
| Monastery head |
Thomas Joseph |
28 Jul 2023 |
| Senior monk |
The Times Concise |
24 Jun 2023 |
| Brothers' keeper, of a sort |
Wall Street Journal |
13 Jun 2023 |
| Monastery head |
Universal |
02 Apr 2023 |
| Monastic leader |
Newsday |
04 Dec 2022 |
| Senior religious figure, a bold social-media nuisance |
|
|
| Monastic head |
The Telegraph Quick |
17 Sep 2022 |
| Cloister leader |
LA Times Daily |
08 Sep 2022 |
| Head of an abbey |
The Guardian Speedy |
21 Aug 2022 |
| Monastery figure |
LA Times Daily |
13 Jul 2022 |
| Superior rating given to second rate books |
The Times Cryptic |
01 Jul 2022 |
| Monastery figure |
New York Times |
08 Jun 2022 |
| Monastery leader |
Newsday |
18 May 2022 |
| Religious head |
The Times Concise |
30 Apr 2022 |
| Monastery leader |
Newsday |
25 Jan 2022 |
| Monastery leader |
USA Today |
02 Jan 2022 |
| Graduate set up software program for religious leader |
|
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| Graduate set up software program for religious leader |
The Guardian Cryptic |
29 Nov 2021 |
| Head of a monastery |
New York Times |
04 Oct 2021 |
| A British book on Old Testament religious leader |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
27 Sep 2021 |
| Man with a mission? |
New York Times |
14 Sep 2021 |
| Word from the Aramaic for "father" |
LA Times Daily |
17 Jul 2021 |
| Word from the Aramaic for 'father' |
|
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| Monk, Rabbi — both disrobed |
|
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| Cloister leader |
|
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| Cloister leader |
LA Times Daily |
30 Jun 2021 |
| Prior superior |
Wall Street Journal |
27 May 2021 |
| Monastery figure |
Thomas Joseph |
25 May 2021 |
| Monastery head |
Thomas Joseph |
17 May 2021 |
| Monastery figure |
Universal |
17 May 2021 |
| Monastery head |
The Telegraph Quick |
19 Apr 2021 |
| Monastery head |
Wall Street Journal |
16 Mar 2021 |
| American opens big, box of tricks in The Monk's Head? |
|
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| Monastery VIP |
|
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| Monastery VIP |
LA Times Daily |
14 Feb 2021 |
| Monastery leader |
Universal |
22 Jan 2021 |
| Main monk |
Wall Street Journal |
15 Dec 2020 |
| Monastery leader |
Newsday |
09 Nov 2020 |
| Head monk |
The Sun Two Speed |
17 Oct 2020 |
| Superior muscle turned to flab at the end |
The Sun Two Speed |
17 Oct 2020 |
| Monastery leader |
LA Times Daily |
28 Sep 2020 |
| Monastery leader |
|
|
| Monastery VIP |
Eugene Sheffer |
28 Sep 2020 |
| Monk's leader |
Thomas Joseph |
22 Sep 2020 |
| Superior rating given to second-rate back |
|
|
| Religious senior gives some bother to Jack |
|
|
| Monks' head |
The Times Concise |
24 Aug 2020 |
| Main monk |
Premier Sunday |
19 Jul 2020 |
| A couple of books — Biblical books — shown by religious leader |
|
|
| Senior monk |
The Telegraph Quick |
02 Jul 2020 |
| Head of a monastery |
New York Times |
22 Jun 2020 |
| Monastery head |
Universal |
25 May 2020 |
| Australian bishop has program for head of order |
|
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| Sailor, purchased report from superior monk |
|
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| Monastery head |
Newsday |
06 May 2020 |
| Article on books: 39 books for Protestant religious leader |
|
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| Senior cleric has adult books alongside holy books |
|
|
| Leader of monks |
The Times Concise |
13 Dec 2019 |
| Big brother? |
New York Times |
08 Dec 2019 |
| Big brother? |
|
|
| Head monk |
The Times Concise |
23 Oct 2019 |
| Boss of brothers |
Newsday |
12 Jul 2019 |
| Prior's superior |
|
|
| Prior's superior |
LA Times Daily |
04 May 2019 |
| Monk's superior |
USA Today |
25 Apr 2019 |
| . A book carrying bishop over time becomes a friar |
|
|
| Monk's superior |
Universal |
11 Feb 2019 |
| Monastery leader |
USA Today |
29 Jan 2019 |
| Superior muscle turned to flab at the end |
|
|
| Head monk |
The Telegraph Quick |
10 Jan 2019 |
| Monastery VIP |
Newsday |
04 Jan 2019 |
| Monk's superior |
|
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| Prior's superior |
|
|
| Monk's superior |
|
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| Monastery leader |
|
|
| Monastery bigwig |
Universal |
21 Dec 2018 |
| Monastic leader |
Newsday |
13 Dec 2018 |
| Monastery head |
|
|
| Monastery head |
LA Times Daily |
14 Oct 2018 |
| Monastic title |
|
|
| Monastery honcho |
USA Today |
14 Sep 2018 |
| A hostelry is empty out by The Monk's Head? |
|
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| Father ABC |
|
|
| Brothers' keeper? |
|
|
| Brothers' keeper? |
LA Times Daily |
03 Aug 2018 |
| Monastery head |
USA Today |
07 Jul 2018 |
| Monk and a bishop reach half way down there |
|
|
| Brothers' keeper? |
Universal |
20 May 2018 |
| Monk's superior |
Newsday |
14 Mar 2018 |
| Superior article at front of book on autonomous computer program |
|
|
| Top Trappist, maybe |
New York Times |
13 Feb 2018 |
| Head of a monastery |
The Telegraph Quick |
28 Jan 2018 |
| Brothers' keeper? |
|
|
| Monastery bigwig |
|
|
| Monastery head |
|
|
| Brothers' keeper? |
|
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| Monastery head |
|
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| Top Trappist, maybe |
|
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| Monastery honcho |
|
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| Monastery head |
|
|
| Chief monk |
The Sun Two Speed |
01 Dec 2017 |
| Monk and sailor with black set of books |
The Sun Two Speed |
01 Dec 2017 |
| Superior's title |
New York Times |
19 Oct 2017 |
| Monastery figure |
New York Times |
20 Aug 2017 |
| A couple of books on Old Testament religious leader |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
15 Aug 2017 |
| Monks' leader |
Newsday |
22 Jun 2017 |
| Head monk |
Universal |
02 Jun 2017 |
| Superior monk? |
Universal |
18 Apr 2017 |
| Superior, British in flying boat |
|
|
| Ecclesiastical leader |
New York Times |
09 Apr 2017 |
| Brother with a cross |
New York Times |
26 Feb 2017 |
| Cloister kingpin |
|
|
| Brother with a cross |
|
|
| Ecclesiastical leader |
|
|
| Monastery figure |
|
|
| Superior's title |
|
|
| Head monk |
|
|
| Superior monk? |
|
|
| Monastery leader |
New York Times |
19 Dec 2016 |
| Religious head |
The Times Concise |
07 Oct 2016 |
| Monk's boss |
Newsday |
06 Oct 2016 |
| Monk's superior |
New York Times |
09 Aug 2016 |
| Friars Club leader |
Newsday |
31 Jul 2016 |
| Brothers' keeper |
Wall Street Journal |
29 Jul 2016 |
| Title from the Aramaic for "father" |
LA Times Daily |
23 Jul 2016 |
| Monastery title |
Wall Street Journal |
22 Jul 2016 |
| Cleric with a prior appointment |
|
|
| It's ropy leaving booby trap for Big Brother |
|
|
| Monks' head |
Wall Street Journal |
07 Mar 2016 |
| Head of a monastery |
Universal |
09 Feb 2016 |
| Superior, British in flying boat |
The Sun Two Speed |
26 Jan 2016 |
| Monastery VIP |
Family Time |
17 Jan 2016 |
| Man at top of order? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
14 Jan 2016 |
| Chief monk |
USA Today |
12 Jan 2016 |
| Monk's superior |
|
|
| Title from the Aramaic for "father" |
|
|
| Monastery leader |
|
|
| Head of a monastery |
|
|
| Chief monk |
|
|
| Head of a monastery |
|
|
| Monastery's main man |
Universal |
12 Dec 2015 |
| Brothers' keeper? |
Wall Street Journal |
22 Oct 2015 |
| Religious leader |
Newsday |
08 Oct 2015 |
| Prior's superior |
New York Times |
21 Jul 2015 |
| Word derived from the Aramaic for "my father" |
LA Times Daily |
06 Jun 2015 |
| Superior bridge primarily breaking a software crawler |
|
|
| Monks' leader |
The Times Concise |
14 May 2015 |
| Cloister leader |
Newsday |
30 Apr 2015 |
| Brother's keeper? |
New York Times |
01 Apr 2015 |
| Main monk |
USA Today |
03 Mar 2015 |
| Prior's superior |
|
|
| Big brother |
New York Times |
25 Jan 2015 |
| Brother's keeper? |
Universal |
24 Jan 2015 |
| Monastery leader |
|
|
| Monk's superior |
|
|
| Prior's superior |
|
|
| Big brother |
|
|
| Religious leader |
|
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| Brother's keeper? |
|
|
| Word derived from the Aramaic for "my father" |
|
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| Main monk |
|
|
| Monastery's main man |
|
|
| Brother's keeper? |
|
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| Prior's superior |
|
|
| Monk's "father superior" |
|
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| Brothers' keeper? |
|
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| Cloister leader |
|
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| Monastery head |
|
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| Cloister chief |
|
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| Monastery's main man |
|
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| Monastery head |
|
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| Head of a monastery |
|
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| Chief monk |
|
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| Monk's superior |
|
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| Monastery head |
|
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| Brother's keeper? |
|
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| Monastery dignitary |
|
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| Monk's superior |
|
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| Superior of a monastery |
|
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| Monk's boss |
|
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| Monk's superior |
|
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| Chief monk |
|
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| Monastery man |
|
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| Monastery VIP |
|
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| Head of monks |
|
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| Cloister leader |
|
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| Man with a mission? |
|
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| Monastery master |
|
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| Monastery master |
|
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| Brother's keeper? |
|
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| Mozzetta wearer |
|
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| Trappist head |
|
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| Monastery VIP |
|
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| Benedictine bigwig |
|
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| Top monk |
|
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| Head monk |
|
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| Literally, "father" |
|
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| Mozzetta wearer |
|
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| Leader elected by monks |
|
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| Brother's keeper? |
|
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| Monastery VIP |
|
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| Leader elected by monks |
|
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| One giving prior consent? |
|
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| Man at the monastery |
|
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| Monastery superior |
|
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| Man with a mission? |
|
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| Superior of a monastery |
|
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| Superior title? |
|
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| Cloister leader |
|
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| Main monk |
|
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| Top Trappist |
|
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| Main man in a monastery |
|
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| Father of a sort |
|
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| Man with a mission? |
|
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| Monastic title |
|
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| Brothers' keeper? |
|
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| Monk's boss |
|
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| Monk keyman |
|
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| Monk's boss |
|
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| Monk keyman |
|
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| Cloister chief |
|
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| Monastery head |
|
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| Monastery bigwig |
|
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| Monastery bigwig |
|
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| Main man in a monastery |
|
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| Mother superior's counterpart |
|
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| Monastery head |
|
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| Certain superior's title |
|
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| Monastic superior |
|
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| Head monk |
|
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| Monks' head |
|
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| Superior's title |
|
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| Head of the cloister |
|
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| Elected superior |
|
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| Head of a monastery |
|
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| Head monk |
|
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| "The Name of the Rose" role |
|
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| Big brother |
|
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| "The Name of the Rose" role |
|
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| Religious leader |
|
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| Prior superior |
|
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| Superior's title |
|
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| Main monk |
|
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| Main monk |
|
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| One in charge of monk business |
|
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| Monk's main man |
|
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| Brothers' keeper |
|
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| Friars Club bigwig |
|
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| Big brother? |
|
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| Right Reverend |
|
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| Monks' head |
|
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| Monk's boss |
|
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| Monastery honcho |
|
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| Monks' boss |
|
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| Monk leader |
|
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| One in charge of monk business |
|
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| Friars Club official |
|
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| "The Name of the Rose" figure |
|
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| Monastery's main man |
|
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| Head of a monastery |
|
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| Monastic governor |
|
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| Prior's superior |
|
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| Church official |
|
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| Friar's Club bigwig |
|
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| Monastery head |
|
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| Monastery's main man |
|
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| Monastery VIP |
|
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| Brothers' head |
|
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| Big brother? |
|
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| Aelfric or Alcuin |
|
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| Archimandrite |
|
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| Monastery superior |
|
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| Trappist head |
|
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| Top Trappist |
|
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| Monastery superior |
|
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| Head of monks |
|
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| Cloister leader |
|
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| The man at the monastery |
|
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| Top monk |
|
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| Monks' head |
|
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| Superior's title |
|
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| Monastery superior |
|
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| Prior's superior |
|
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| Monastery V.I.P. |
|
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| Monastery superior |
|
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| Brothers' keeper? |
|
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| Monastery's main man |
|
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| Monastic title |
|
|
| Scott's "The ___" |
|
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| A fra's superior |
|
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| V.I.P. in a monastery |
|
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| Cluny clergyman |
|
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| Head monk |
|
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| Benedictine bigwig |
|
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| Chief monk |
|
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| Cloister's director |
|
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| Bud the comedian |
|
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| Monastery man |
|
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| Cloister official |
|
|
| Religious title. |
|
|
| Historical novel by Scott, with "The." |
|
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| Monastic head. |
|
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| Chief monk. |
|
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| Clerical title. |
|
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| Cleric. |
|
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| Churchman. |
|
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| Father Superior. |
|
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| Monastery head. |
|
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| Church title. |
|
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| Benedictine head. |
|
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| Scott's Father Ambrose. |
|
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| Head of a monastery. |
|
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| Father superior. |
|
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| Ecclesiastical title. |
|
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| Churchman |
|
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| Superior monk |
|
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| "The ___."—Scott. |
|
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| Church man |
|
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