5 Good people, these, working on behalf of Chad? (10)
8 Horse boxes run out: that’s a rum thing (4)
9 Saint coming from heathenism, after conversion, is one that helped build a new Jerusalem (8)
10 The island state tree (6)
11 Head hunter maybe gets nothing in Salem scheme (6)
12 Land on the road to hell before getting a later coach (6)
15 19’s half-sorry in the end for benefits fraud (6)
17 New Zealander, troublesome and lewd, expelled by one from an NT site (8)
18 Celtic, turning around one down, get murdered (4)
19 Acts sorcerer does shows, son, I’m a mug, stupid ass, in the extreme (5,5)
Cryptic down
1 Downtown, maybe somewhere in Maine? (6)
2 God, American for starters is, not half, a goat (6)
3 Southern isle settled on by the undead (6)
4 Old harvest festival retrospective, ditching Sunday for Monday, and meat (6)
6 Assyrian king is little bit like 19, maybe, capturing strontium with key to get inside (10)
7 Tuck into horses at Master Bunter’s alma mater (10)
13 Master gets support by the hour for a Hindu god (6)
14 Princess’s flipped over the colour (6)
15 Observe, in the present and also the past, it goes up and down (6)
16 Muslims seen here going through supremo’s questioning (6)
Quick across
5 Satanic counter to Jesus (10)
8 Star that ejects some of its material in the form of a cloud and becomes more
luminous (4)
9 OT book consisting of adages from various Israelite sages (8)
10 Relic or trace of life forms preserved in rock (6)
11 Abandon (6)
12 Piled up (6)
15 Permanently frozen mass on a mountain-top (3-3)
17 Formally charged for goods or services rendered (8)
18 Digestion aid: ill-humour (4)
19 Oldest Greek version of the Old Testament (10)
Quick down
1 Chronicles (6)
2 Force to go away (6)
3 Hide from view: burial garment (6)
4 Various (archaic): sub-aqua workers (6)
6 Portable sanctuary in which the Jews carried the Ark of the Covenant on their exodus (10)
7 His beheading is portrayed by Donatelli, among others (10)
13 Dead on time (6)
14 Authoritative declaration (6)
15 Rainbow colour (6)
16 Build up supporting earthworks (6)
Crossword answers
Cryptic answers to No 0454: Across: 6 Bo Peep, 8 Trumps, 9 Susa, 10 Rabbinic, 11 Flying Bishops, 14 Good Samaritan, 17 Napthali, 19 Agag, 21 Adorns, 22 Seamer. Down: 1 Tofu, 2 Merari, 3 Stub, 4 Judith, 5 Split pea, 7 Perugia, 12 Leonardo, 13 Italics, 15 Dotard, 16 In a jam, 18 Also, 20 Amen.
Quick answers to No 0454: Across: 6 Balaam, 8 Akimbo, 9 Et al, 10 Rag trade, 11 Simon the Leper, 14 Judas Iscariot, 17 La Mancha, 19 Char, 21 Hanani, 22 Elohim. Down: 1 Raft, 2 Gallio, 3 Tang, 4 Pierre, 5 Abednego, 7 Marathi, 12 Idumaean, 13 Enclave, 15 Arabah, 16 Rector, 18 Cain, 20 As if.
Crossword winners
Winners (0453 Cryptic): Gregory Porilo, Tooting; Sue Marsh, Tunbridge Wells Winners (0453 Quick): Joan Burn, Abingdon; David and Theresa O’Neill, Newcastle upon Tyne
Sudoku 0455
Solution 0454
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