Cryptic across
5 Rum’s a precious sea throwback, totally (8)
7 Register with HQ, say? (4)
9 Perhaps a converted preacher helped Paul in Colossae (8)
10 Unimportant-seeming part is able to uplift the French spirit (6)
12 Belief in Tokyo that part of the leg is almost digitally attached? (6)
13 King of Judah one’s not found incontinent, as it is said, perhaps (3)
14 One who kills birds to make dinner in the end (6)
16 He takes messages to the island with South-Easterly backing (6)
18 Before Siam collapsed, Frenchman evacuated the king and queen (8)
20 Pretentiousness is being unable to miss off an apostrophe (4)
21 Programme royals turned back on, having an initial shock (4,4)
Cryptic down
1 Senior officer among colonels one sees (6)
2 Messenger chap reaching Braintree centre, gets lost (4)
3 Esther, up and down, did have donkey to ride (8)
4 Woman in Virginia hits out in 3’s divorce (6)
6 Great assemblage pull to pieces article, one that’s not incomplete (8)
8 Smeared chap’s address – in bits, leaving ordainment shattered (8)
11 Non-vegetarian, lacking iron perhaps, needs to gain a pound in the event, prior to fasting (8)
15 Novels he wrote – no amateur American essayist’s epilogue here (6)
17 Jacob’s second sting has banks left and right turned over (6)
19 Sponges books on board (4)
Quick across
5 5th century BC Athenian general, statesman and commissioner of the building of the Parthenon (8)
7 Norse god of discord and mischief; trickster (4)
9 Father of one of the Twelve Tribes (8)
10 Latinized abbreviation for Cambridge (University) (6)
12 Borough of West London, home to once-famous film studios (6)
13 Long white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves (3)
14 5th century BC Greek lyric poet remembered for his odes (6)
16 Archaic or poetic name for Britain or England (6)
18 One of Daniel’s three companions in Babylon (8)
20 Unattractive-sounding fruit? (4)
21 Roman emperor between Caligula and Nero (8)
Quick down
1 Expert in, or follower of, the most ancient writings of Hinduism (6)
2 Fruit, aka Chinese gooseberry (4)
3 Wife of Aaron (8)
4 Valley near Hebron, which translates as ‘cluster of grapes’, known to Moses’ spies (6)
6 Common reddish-brown bird of prey with a familiar quavering hoot (5,3)
8 Thirteen of these characters are so-named in the OT, including the title of one book! (8)
11 Missionary of Paul, cousin to John Mark (8)
15 Figure out (6)
17 Marcus Junius ——, Roman statesman; thanks to the Bard, almost as well-known in the vocative case (6)
19 Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca (4)
Entries to Crossword 0569, The Catholic Herald, Herald House, Lamb’s Passage, Bunhill Row,
London EC1Y 8TQ or email [email protected]
(Answers in by November 28)
Winners (0567 Cryptic) Dr Gregory Porilo, London SW17; Anselm Figeon, Wicklow Town, Ireland. Winners (0567 Quick) Michael Donnelly, Bangor, Co Down; TJ Monaghan, Newton Mearns,
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