Cryptic across

5 Accountant, a descendant of 18, is about to go west (6)
7 Revision makes grade better (6)
9 Service book for my pro-Cameron model (6,6)
10 Put aside French savouries, turned over with skill (3,5)
12 Fancy dressers with facings of filigree on plate supports (4)
13 Canaanite city artillery occupy today (4)
15 Direction of an extremely lively first festival (8)
17 Ticking off for being inappropriately casual (8,4)
19 Spoil, almost, yon Bethany woman (6)
20 Unsteady, tumbled in part – the most sacred part – of the temple (6)

Cryptic down

1 Certain protection for a line dancer in the NT (6)
2 Evergreen shrub grouse evacuates, for instance, in fall (4)
3 Use computer stuff brought in by beasts of burden to make Mexican specialities (8)
4 Provoke a fussy purist (4,2)
6 Goal, a non-starter after a break, to get guys to tango to order (11)
8 Robin goes after Doris continually (3,5,3)
11 Place in Bucks where the queen’s quiet in the mornings (8)
14 Matter of cross-dressing material gets a beefy sort infuriated… (3,3)
16 …cheap shot, revealing décolletage (3-3)
18 One in floods after getting accepted into the Japanese stage (4)

Quick across

5 Prophetess consulted by Hilkiah after he discovered the Book of Law (6)
7 Juxtapose (6)
9 ———— Day, or Lady Day (25 March) (12)
10 Inattentive (8)
12 Heavy reading (4)
13 Biblical peak from which Moses looked on the 17 (4)
15 One of the five Philistine cities (8)
17 Euphemism for Canaan, Palestine, Eden, etc (8,4)
19 Cell-produced protein, a catalyst in certain reactions (6)
20 Contention; argument (6)

Quick down

1 African country, capital Conakry (6)
2 Conventionally smart; cool (4)
3 Alternative name for Esther (8)
4 Valley Josiah destroyed (6)
6 Book of the OT containing a second statement of Mosaic Law (11)
8 Expression of sympathy for a shared experience (4,3,4)
11 Those of a country east of Babylonia whose capital was Susa (8)
14 Lay out, disburse (6)
16 Elaborate, flowery (6)
18 Collection of poems in Norse mythology (4)

Crossword answers

Cryptic answers to No 0449: Across: 7 Voodoo, 8 Arenas, 9 Chin, 10 All Souls, 11 Tribune, 13 Gihon, 15 Twerp, 17 Zwingli, 20 Bigamist, 21 Styx, 22 Masada, 23 Isaiah. Down: 1 Zophar, 2 Odin, 3 Cocaine, 4 Eagle, 5 Herodian, 6 Sail ho, 12 Barnabas, 14 Swithin, 16 Weimar, 18 Layman, 19 Dinah, 21 Saar.

Quick answers to No 0449: Across: 7 Daniel, 8 Bilhah, 9 Asti, 10 Onesimus, 11 Psalter, 13 Edgar, 15 Hazor, 17 Erasmus, 20 Evensong, 21 Joab, 22 Ursine, 23 Radius.  Down: 1 Tarsus, 2 Fiji, 3 Bloomer, 4 Abner, 5 Pleiades, 6 Lacuna, 12 Lyonnais, 14 Gregory, 16 Adverb, 18 Uranus, 19 Cowes, 21 Jude.

Crossword winners

Winners (0448 Cryptic): Marie Drake, Chorley; Liam Ó Briain, Manchester

Winners (0448 Quick): David and Theresa O’Neill, Newcastle upon Tyne; John Geary, Romford

Sudoku 0450

Solution 0449

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