7 Fighting force needed to empower the female (6)
8 Joseph who wrote using no card (6)
9 Dodgy dealer after betting sees six folding (4)
10 One crosses the aisle of coach, not one step out of place (8)
11 Crack race one’s entered in (7)
13 Russian river bird flying around this Jew sees again (5)
15 Prominent among Christians, he leads in Ephesians, she being in Corinthians (5)
16 Empire of salesman’s seen, on reflection, wrong, the area leader admitted (7)
18 Maybe glue addict needs this at four and close to five (8)
19 Burn the top off corner piece (4)
21 Picardy town street, the first of organized fronts – ‘on-Sea’ – in France (2,4)
22 Primate number found cutting and initially lacking aspiration (6)
Cryptic down
1 Wheat harvest? (4)
2 Religious organization, or Malaysian TV misrepresentation (9,4)
3 Quick directions for what 18 does (7)
4 Brilliant display by Chaplin, capital in an uplifting story (5)
5 Has a tight budget when it comes to a piece of footwear (2,1,10)
6 Ananias’ wife’s quiet application to meet with guerilla group (8)
12 Sceptics sat in discord about armed robbery (8)
14 He baker; she the patriarch’s wife? (7)
17 Left one supporter in the balance (5)
20 David’s grandad’s cry for sleep (4)
Quick across
7 Thrusting sword (6)
8 All together [1] (2,4)
9 Philistine home city of Goliath (4)
10 Who with Paul in Lycaonia was addressed as ‘Zeus’ (8)
11 Brother of Ham (7)
13 Official language of Iran (5)
15 Yellowish native pigment (5)
16 One of Zerubbabel’s companions on the journey back from Babylon (7)
18 Father of the tax collector, Levi (8)
19 Norse god of poetry, wisdom, war and agriculture (4)
21 All together [2] (6)
22 Strikingly strange or un
Quick down
1 Spanish sparkling wine (4)
2 Member of the Church of England that exalts the sacraments and the authority of the priesthood (4,9)
3 Kind of court; official proving of a will (7)
4 Bizarre (5)
5 Place where the just repose in death, referenced specifically in Luke (KJV) (8,5)
6 Part of the Pacific Ocean administered by Australia which includes the Great Barrier Reef… (5,3)
12 …and the largest city of a country SE of it? (8)
14 One who sells advice about gambling or speculation (7)
17 Dock: sleeping space (usually on ship or train) (5)
20 Camera diaphragm (4)
Crossword answers
Cryptic answers to No 0537: Across: 5 Trope, 6 Lydda, 8 Prince of Peace, 9 Antares, 10 Leeds, 13 Thule, 14 Senator, 16 Mount of Olives, 18 Demas, 19 Crete. Down: 1 John Paul, 2 Zebedee, 3 Aloft, 4 Adze, 5 Turin Shroud, 7 Archdiocese, 11 Elamites, 12 Menorca, 15 Joash, 17 Numb.
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