5 Home for Beckham is London or Jerusalem (4,2,5)
7 Girl, you and I regularly get involved with the navy (4)
8 New little house in Rome needs a rake (8)
9 One who’s beatified is one adored at heart (7)
11 Medicinal plant belonging to saint going back (5)
12 One from Bethlehem I,
in Nice, ship east to west (5)
14 In speech, stir up awareness (7)
18 Idle aims oddly lead to elevated thinking (8)
19 Stew made from fried up maize ears for starters (4)
20 The UN correctly invaded sect member’s place in Lebanon (5,6)
Cryptic down
1 Made up for part that one damaged (6)
2 Agree with setter’s need to mislead, primarily (6)
3 That is STD code in Latin? (2,3)
4 Display English and French wine at church (6)
5 Spiritual world of Richmond set condemned… (11)
6 …modern spiritual concept, being avid Menuhin fans (6-5)
10 French island upbringing for the High Priest (3)
13 Hammers raised aloft to pounce on (4,2)
15 Cardinal maybe has one OT book short (6)
16 Heinous act that’s fashionable, expunging the Italian dynasty (6)
17 Scene of the Virgin’s lament that’s apt, somehow (5)
Quick across
5 Monastic order whose members included Erasmus and Luther (11)
7 Aramaic word for ‘Father’, as used by Christ (4)
8 Caribbean island discovered and named by Columbus on a Sunday (8)
9 Grotesque and nasty (7)
11 State one’s view (5)
12 Ancient province of the Loire, abutting Poitou (5)
14 Enfold (7)
18 Church officer: member of the Cabinet (8)
19 Entreaty (4)
20 Oath, as maybe considered by children! (7,4)
Quick down
1 Paternal relative (6)
2 Comments to the audience in a play (6)
3 18th letter of the Greek alphabet (5)
4 Abduct (6)
5 Member of a branch of Cathars hounded to extinction by 1300 (11)
6 Church’s counter to Arianism; name given to a longer formula of the Eucharist (6,5)
10 Garden implement (3)
13 Obnoxious (6)
15 One who dies for his or her beliefs (6)
16 Bird of prey; informally a bipedal voracious dinosaur (6)
17 Irritating (5)
Winners (0422 Cryptic): David Moyes, Darlington; Sue Marsh, Tunbridge Wells Winners (0422 Quick): Francis Beswick, Stretford; David O’Neill, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Sudoku 0424
Solution 0423
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