Cryptic across
3 A gumboil not treated here is the end for Saul (5,6)
7 First to come from ancient synagogues in a region around Ephesus (4)
8 Past it, covered in bloodstains, in the end will flag (3,5)
9 Atlas girl, one involved in petition (6)
10 Cleaner type of hero at Troy? (4)
12 Auricular spasm in the wake of oratorio’s coda (4)
14 Soldier group’s hijacked one in Jerusalem’s repopulation scheme (6)
17 He wrote of allotments in a funny way, putting out a disconnected article (8)
18 Sing on the street when American bank is about cleaned out (4)
19 ‘Avalon’ pavan is rearranged for dancer (4,7)
Cryptic down
1 Rod’s hugging upset sailor, being a priestly type (6)
2 First-class return south, by
Lincoln line, to the bush (6)
3 Goal at work to return to some semblance of civilized society (11)
4 Name of railway engine one doubted (6)
5 Levi leader rabid donkey devoured (4)
6 Arcadia site that’s choppy? (8,3)
11 Experienced old army friend, brought up, in the main, in 6? (6)
13 Mark in sentencing over axis settlement (6)
15 City of the Phoenicians Romans renamed after slobby characters (6)
16 It strongly defends bringing up Everest, for example, in report (4)
Quick across
3 The ———– of St John the Divine: KJV title for a NT book (11)
7 Bard of —-: epithet for Shakespeare (4)
8 William ——–, English playwright remembered for his comedies (1670-1729) (8)
9 Bare: side surface of an aperture in a wall for a door or window (6)
10 Sea bird: lough in Ulster (4)
12 Saul’s agent against priests at Nob (4)
14 Slow movement in music (6)
17 Item of supplemental material at the end of a book (8)
18 East of England river that empties into The Wash (4)
19 Church’s counter to Arianism; name given to a longer formula of the Eucharist (6,5)
Quick down
1 Chekhov’s first play (6)
2 Paris stock exchange, now a generic term (6)
3 Main feature of the valley north of the Dead Sea (5,6)
4 Asia Minor resident whose ports, Patara and Myra, were used by Paul (6)
5 Fork prong (4)
6 Partially descriptive of the Lamb in 3 Ac (5-6)
11 Alternative to ‘Original’ when relating to Sin (6)
13 Modern-day classical Hellas (6)
15 Large seabird, white with dark markings (6)
16 Where 11 Sin was present (4)
Entries to Crossword 0596, The Catholic Herald, Herald House, Lamb’s Passage, Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8TQ or email [email protected] (Answers in by June 12)
Winners (0594 Cryptic) Mrs R Grafftey-Smith, Malmesbury, Wiltshire; Margaret MacMillan, Millport, Isle of Cumbrae. Winners (0594 Quick) John Geary. Romford, Essex; Fr Nicholas Paxton, Manchester.
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