Cryptic across
3 Seals Herman made for old king (11)
7 Old Anatolian capital African politicians promoted over a year (6)
8 Homer’s Greek, following a king’s example, returned around four (6)
9 Ultimate revolutionary approach, the first one to confront pain (4)
11 Pole gets wine without using the web (5)
13 Slave invested in the lottery (5)
14 Bismark’s familiar with the heads of old traditional Teutonic Orders (4)
16 Irish dock shallow boat further west (6)
17 King Mark’s bride one traded to get drugs (6)
19 Be noticed in Amazing Grace? (11)
Cryptic down
1 Surreal inverted street maps US state supports (4)
2 After evidence of fire, those prominent among Tatars sack totally-failing Turkmen capital (8)
3 One 3Ac’s nephew, and leader of rebellion, is caught up in ban Chinese organized (11)
4 Missouri – fit description of Bible country (4)
5 Nice one: regular revolution can, oddly, be a subtle thing (6)
6 Arabah feature is the unpredictable jar on driver (5,6)
10 6’s stream through here, it being a pilgrim’s destination (4,4)
12 Something Irish reporter cooked up (6)
15 Element popular among Zodiac bookmarkers (4)
18 Buckeye state’s welcome site is set between two roundabouts (4)
Quick across
3 Follower of a belief that maintains a knowledge of God may be obtained by direct intuition or spiritual ecstasy (11)
7 Eldest of Jacob’s twelve sons by Leah (6)
8 Largest of the Dodecanese islands (6)
9 Gifts of charity (4)
11 Main town of Menorca, formerly a Royal Navy port (5)
13 Capital during WWII of the unoccupied part of France … (5)
14 …and a Normandy city, ‘a martyr city of WWII’, flattened by US bombing (2,2)
16 Prod; cajole (4,2)
17 OT book contributed to by Asaph, among others (6)
19 Victorian novel by George Eliot (1861) (5,6)
Quick down
1 Captain Matthew —-, the first recorded person to swim the English Channel unaided (1875) (4)
2 Augusto ——– (1915–2006), Chilean general, statesman and President, 1974–90 (8)
3 English range of hills: highest point Worcestershire Beacon (425 m; 1,394 ft) (3,8)
4 Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, aka George —-, novelist and sometime companion of Frédéric Chopin (4)
5 —–’- month: alternative name for Adar in the Hebrew calendar named after the Jewish Festival (6)
6 — ——–, 1935 film gaining Oscars for John Ford (direction) and Victor McLagen (actor) (3,8)
10 Obama or Pfeiffer? (8)
12 Greek equivalent of the Roman Somnus, god of sleep (6)
15 Capital of Samoa (4)
18 River of Florence (4)
Entries to Crossword 0618, The Catholic Herald, Herald House, Lamb’s Passage, Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8TQ or email
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Cryptic answers to No 0617
Across: 1 Concordance, 8 Ephraim, 9 Aleph, 10 Whigs, 11 Ariadne, 12 Relics, 14 Enacts, 17 Hidalgo, 19 Hindu, 20 Deneb, 21 Calvary, 22 Chenin Blanc.
Down: 2 Othniel, 3 Chaos, 4 Rameau, 5 Acadian, 6 Creed, 7 Shrewsbury, 8 Edward Hyde, 13 Caliban, 15 Contain, 16 Toucan, 18 Dinah, 19 Halal.
Quick answers to No 0617
Across: 1 Renaissance, 8 Avernus, 9 Impis, 10 Minos, 11 America, 12 Garnet, 14 Terfel, 17 Deeside, 19 Crypt, 20 Occur, 21 Burgess, 22 In Paradisum.
Down: 2 Eleanor, 3 Agnes, 4 Seshat, 5 Abilene, 6 Capri, 7 Israelites, 8 Armageddon, 13 Eritrea, 15 Feydeau, 16 Serbia, 18 Ex-con, 19 Corgi.
Winners (0616 Cryptic)
Mrs RT Grafftey-Smith, Malmesbury, Wiltshire; Sue Marsh, Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
Winners (0616 Quick)
Susan Kelly, Kenton, Middlesex; John Geary, Romford, Essex