Cryptic across
5 Disastrous blow to harem is getting to apostle (11)
7 Sherry’s heading to France, initially not oloroso (4)
8 Odd call leaving Palaeolithic fragments here in Africa (8)
9 Chap’s about to go to Lincoln; mother to Paris (6)
11 Legally half of Missouri, that’s by treaty, being evacuated (6)
12 First class credit secretary raised for Philemon’s wife (6)
15 Colour Virginia’s seen by lake in a Spanish border town (6)
17 One even keeps heroin in pocket to front Joseph’s boss (8)
18 Is it patronizing to bow? (4)
19 Book Monterey duo to perform (11)
Cryptic down
1 Fleece vessel after taking away top goods (4)
2 Woman known by Paul, sounds like hard worker after money (6)
3 Manchester area location of actor that’s passé (6)
4 Jurassic fossil one’s found in Rabbah (8)
5 Illegally pay for state cuts during a turning tide (5)
6 Slap target, possibly, wife’s horrible sister when dropping points (5)
10 Friend of Fortunatus, a chic USA criminal (8)
13 Self-important, being honoured (5)
14 Benjamin’s son’s found wearing cash-belt (6)
15 Summit over Channel Island summit? (6)
16 French town is very irritating having no square (5)
18 Book this morning before it gets very big (4)
Quick across
5 Time between Palm Sunday and Easter (7,4)
7 Europe’s tallest active volcano (4)
8 See 9
9/8 Philosopher and Roman Emperor, 161-180 AD (6,8)
11 Chirrup, trill (6)
12 Italy’s third city (6)
15 Bram —— (1847-1912), Irish-born gothic novelist (6)
17 Part of the Mass, ‘Day of Wrath’ – Judgment Day (4,4)
18 Biblical peak (4)
19 One of two kings of the same name associated with the deportation of the ‘Ten Lost Tribes’ (11)
Quick down
1 Roman province at the time of the apostles: name now to a much larger area of the world (4)
2 In Greek myth, the twelve children of Uranus and Gaia (6)
3 Disciple called by Jesus along the shores of the Sea of Galilee (6)
4 Islet of a small archipelago off Florida’s south coast: John Huston film noir of 1948 (3,5)
5 ‘A rose-red city half as old as time’, discovered in Jordan in 1812 (5)
6 Cross-grained protuberance; nodule (5)
10 City of 1 where Paul addressed a letter to its church (8)
13 Astrological ram (5)
14 Slender-bodied, chiefly marine, decapod crustacean (6)
15 Hezekiah’s secretary (6)
16 —– Days: traditional fasting days in Lent, Advent, etc (5)
18 Coastal headland: particular body of Scottish water (4)
Entries to Crossword 0621, The Catholic Herald, Herald House, Lamb’s Passage, Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8TQ or email [email protected] (Answers in by December 4)
Winners (0619 Cryptic)
Sue Marsh, Tunbridge Wells, Kent; Jack M Verblow, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Winners (0619 Quick)
TJ Monaghan, Johnstone, Renfrewshire; Sr Brendan Murphy, Birmingham, West Midlands.
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