Cryptic across
7 House within diocese is retro brown (6)
8 Nice fathers sacked in Gorbachev’s plan for Russian transport (6)
9 Joint effort haulage unions take at the outset to identify speeding driver (4)
10 Gemstone’s cut by a mate of Ananias (8)
11 Arrived from Sodom, he visited the royal court (7)
13 Extent of stratagem to remove opener (5)
15 State of Germany is affluent after embracing East (5)
17 Classical – fancy woman’s type of music? (7)
20 Let into camp in SW Scotland (8)
21 No ice, it being pretty cool (4)
23 Abraham’s lad’s middle-man (6)
24 Fairy king’s Russian flower bird headed off with (6)
Cryptic down
1 Old Iranian strong drink is pronounced (4)
2 He ruled on the serving up of fish in church (6)
3 Head of a Levitical family certain strangers honoured (7)
4 Actions start and finish in steeplechases where favourites are squeezed and brought down (5)
5 Where Batman may have brought home the bacon? (6)
6 Islands and more than one Irish county support the South (8)
12 Piece of a rosary found in St Mary’s Avenue, Rome? (3,5)
14 Graduate via London, half-way to being exiled there (7)
16 Not a conforming type, this one, preferring California to French wine (6)
18 Bet tug is crossing Tees without using the banks (6)
19 Important African airline’s interior is lacking colour (5)
22 Small book by morning is very big (4)
Quick across
7 1946 picture starring and directed by Laurence Olivier (5,1)
8 One of two disciples of John the Baptist and the first named disciple of Jesus (6)
9 Asiatic barren plateau which means ‘stony desert’ (4)
10 Pharisee who spoke up for the Apostles in the Sanhedrin (8)
11 Hades river (7)
13 Publius Servilius —– Longus, co-assassin of Julius Caesar (5)
15 Lively ballroom dance from Brazil (5)
17 Prophet who foretold of Ahab’s defeat by the Assyrians (7)
20 Capital of South Australia (8)
21 Wild large-horned mountain goat of Eurasia and N Africa (4)
23 Dawn goddess (6)
24 Northern town famous for its dried fruit-encased and sugared pastry (6)
Quick down
1 Biblical peak from which Moses looked on the Promised Land (4)
2 Of or relating to the ancient Greek city of Argos or its people (6)
3 Home to the Popes between 1309-77 (7)
4 Third letter of the ancient Greek alphabet (5)
5 Haman’s son, killed by Jews (6)
6 Seaport from which Paul and Barnabas left with John Mark for their first missionary journey (8)
12 Roman emperor between Caligula and Nero (8)
14 Biblical city founded by Nimrod (7)
16 Hilaire —— (1870-1953), French-born English writer (6)
18 Name shared by a king of Ellasar and a captain of Nebuchadnezzar’s guard (6)
19 Sister of Simeon and Levi (5)
22 ‘East of —-’: 1955 film starring James Dean (4)
Entries to Crossword 0605, The Catholic Herald, Herald House, Lamb’s Passage, Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8TQ or email [email protected] (Answers in by August 14)
Quick answers to No 0604 Across: 1 Constantine, 9 Haarlem, 10 Blair, 11 Sways, 12 Alençon, 13 Live and Let Die, 16 Ehrlich, 18 Kebab, 20 Chill, 21 Minster, 22 Gormenghast. Down: 2 Osaka, 3 Silesia, 4 Arms and the Man, 5 Table, 6 Nuanced, 7 Chesil Beach, 8 Brandenburg, 14 Vertigo, 15 Elkanah, 17 Islam, 19 Bates.
Winners (0603 Cryptic) Jenny Allen, Newton Abbot, Devon; Fr A Dearman. Prestwich, Greater Manchester. Winners (0603 Quick) Margaret MacMillan, Millport, Isle of Cumbrae; Sr Brendan Murphy, Birmingham, West Midlands.
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