Cryptic across
7 Girl getting support at new church is a token of peace (5,6)
8 Unexpected drink after a mother gets bargains here? (5,3)
9 Cross with opening set-back (4)
10 Ready to sit, shaking after big dipper? (7)
11 Wise one in the making is one that does give a hoot (5)
13 Judges one a King’s Counsel put forward (5)
15 Underworld introduction linking Venus and Ra is far-fetched (7)
18 Saul’s servant in Jerusalem is seen half-cut with sailor, falling over (4)
19 Criticize, having a superficially attractive appearance, Voltaire’s pedantic character (8)
20 Sudanese man is thrashing about in Antarctic waters (8,3)
Cryptic down
1 Goad animators into creating someone thoughtful (4,9)
2 Doctrine English knight embraced, being the will of Allah (6)
3 Backslide in the matter of circuits recorded (7)
4 An oarsman loses direction on the River Arnon here (5)
5 Wander all over the place, akin to Peter (6)
6 Quietly go about part of the week before getting fast (6,7)
12 Among shaven Germans is one who gets his own back (7)
14 He predicted transport range which is superior (6)
16 Chutney to appreciate (6)
17 Potter’s just remembered lines after turning to poetry (5)
Quick across
7 Birthplace of Elisha (4-7)
8 One from Cana or Capernaum, perhaps… (8)
9 …and Douglas? (4)
10 Italian red wine grown mainly from the Sangiovese grape in Tuscany (7)
11 Theatrical thinking aloud (5)
13 Son of Jacob (5)
15 Etruscan goddess adopted by Rome (7)
18 French soft cheese (4)
19 Hole in a volcanic mass from which magmatic smoke issues (8)
20 1972 world-wide smash hit for Don McLean (8,3)
Quick down
1 Follower of Zoroaster (in the Avestan) (13)
2 Name of the island in the KJV where Paul, a prisoner, was shipwrecked going to Rome (6)
3 ——- Eco, author of The Name of the Rose (7)
4 Alan Ladd classic western of 1953 (5)
5 Alternative name for Bar-Jesus, the false prophet (6)
6 Important central part of the South Wales coalfield (7,6)
12 Another name for pork (7)
14 Devon cathedral city, Roman Isca (6)
16 Continent covering approximately 2% of the Earth’s surface (6)
17 Append; attach (5)
Entries to Crossword 0576, The Catholic Herald, Herald House, Lamb’s Passage, Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8TQ or email [email protected]
(Answers in by January 23)
Winners (0574 Cryptic) Margaret MacMillan, Isle of Cumbrae, North Ayrshire; Sue Marsh, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Winners (0574 Quick) John Geary, Romford, Essex; TJ Monaghan, Glasgow.
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