Cryptic across
1 Insignificant number lacking zip in old musical brought back featuring, in Sam, a naughty girl (6)
4 Egyptian city’s almost flat seen next to mine (6)
9 French resort, after confederate’s volte-face, to acknowledge NT princess (7)
10 Press a rebellious part of OT Iran (5)
11 Bethany’s home to Judah’s grandson (5)
12 Island in the stream of myth; it embraces Hawaiian folk-wisdom initially (7)
13 Going mad with rugby at Northampton: being heartless, I am no good to get involved for sure (7,4)
18 Place well-known to 22, taking speed in a shabby semi (7)
20 IT company in New York’s a big one (5)
22 King is spotted among chapel visitors (5)
23 What 22 may be in his industry makes yours truly hesitate in saying Paul was not liked here (7)
24 Despot’s return to Chennai (run out of Delhi, the capital), to take over (6)
25 Leg after husband trapped in vehicle, making for the ferry chap (6)
Cryptic down
1 Complaint after pub’s turned over – that’s before last orders! (6)
2 Razor – a hazard, somewhat, in Samson’s place (5)
3 I missed Giovanni moving to the papal residence (7)
5 Smyrna today is reported to be in touch with the space station (5)
6 Don concealed a large force close to Bilbao (7)
7 Tight one, that is normal for promotion (6)
8 Chilliest NE resort of Greece (11)
14 Peacekeepers’ decamped after being in situ (7)
15 Card, one hard to cover – must see Reuben here? (7)
16 One’s last words about getting French treated in this place (6)
17 Girl’s Scottish fella reaches peak in texts (6)
19 Book a little house on the ocean (5)
21 Orders job earlier? (5)
Quick across
1 Formal warning; caution (6)
4 In Shakespeare, the Prince of Denmark (6)
9 Evil man murdered by Absalom (7)
10 Short low gruff noise emitted orally (5)
11 Purplish flowering shrub (5)
12 Day of rest and worship (7)
13 Trading descendants of Canaanites operating from Tyre, Sidon and other nearby ports (11)
18 Composer of the Miserere Mozart famously wrote down from memory after a visit to St Peter’s (7)
20 Ice-gouged inlet (either spelling) (5)
22 USA’s ‘Pine Tree State’, capital Augusta (5)
23 Generalized term for any number of Meso-American peoples and their Uzo-Aztecan language (7)
24 Ammonite king who besieged Jabesh (6)
25 Ancient name for a modern Turkish city, host to important synods in 314 and 358 (6)
Quick down
1 Sweet-talk; persuade (6)
2 Corrupt; easily bribed (5)
3 Picturesque valley and department of France, capital Privas (7)
5 Region in Bashan with ‘sixty fortified towns’ (5)
6 French name for the oldest Belgian university town, once capital of Brabant (7)
7 Easily irritated (6)
8 Subjects, alternatively called, of the kandake (11)
14 High Priest who discovered the Book of the Law in the Temple (7)
15 Iran’s third city, twice Persia’s former capital (7)
16 Superhero played most recently by George Clooney, Christian Bale and Ben Affleck (6)
17 Notable among the five hundred enemies killed by the Jews at Ahasuerus’ citadel in Susa (6)
19 Stab; shot (5)
21 Capacity to express oneself in, and understand, speech (5)
Entries to Crossword 0568,
The Catholic Herald, Herald House, Lamb’s Passage, Bunhill Row,
London EC1Y 8TQ or email [email protected]
(Answers in by November 21)
Quick answers to No 0567 Across: 5 Original Sin, 7 Jazz, 8 Cleoptra, 9 Skiffle, 11 Ankhs, 13 Nancy, 14 Amaziah, 16 Myrmidon, 17 Amok, 18 Mesopotamia. Down: 1 Linz, 2 Lincoln, 3 Caleb, 4 Ashpenaz, 5 Omar Khayyam, 6 North Dakota, 10 Face mask, 12 Emanate, 15 Adept, 17 Alma.
Winners (0566 Cryptic) Margaret MacMillan, Millport, Isle of Cumbrae;
Fr A Dearman, Prestwich, Bury. Winners (0566 Quick) Anne Smith, Walsall, West Midlands; Francis
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