Prize crossword 0574

Cryptic across
7 Feast of Oxbridge colleges? (6,7)
8 Mistress of the house takes in a bellicose spirit (4)
9 Positioned one chap to the west of those beyond Babylon (8)
10 Rascal, pell-mell, sliced through, showing a fine cutting edge (7)
12 Beginning of July, leave pad for a life on the river (5)
14 State of Germany when Hitler’s man contacted English (5)
15 “Do You Know The Way to Warwick”? Song needs injection of capital! (3,4)
17 One’s stung by this, getting number to sign earlier (8)
18 Duck out from where the Greeks used to meet to go to an Indian place (4)
20 UN invalidates movement of the early patriarchs (13)

Cryptic down
1 Bother with many turning up for the finale (4)
2 Statement of faith – a position the French need persuasion to support (8,5)
3 Manoeuvred to Poe’s house and ended disembowelled (7)
4 Gun American brought in to get a young hog (5)
5 Ill at ease, I, Jiri, hat-maker, kept the Ark for a while here (7-6)
6 Church favourite among horses: no second-best here! (2,6)
11 Missionary from Mornington, perhaps, having no time for son (8) 13 Well-paid in old France: ‘fin’, in translation (7)
16 Misdemeanour, right or wrong, Theseus killed this bandit (5)
19 Mysterious character’s score against England (4)

Quick across
7 Feast of All Saints (13)
8 Mother of Zeus: three-toed flightless bird (4)
9 Hoofed (animal) (8)
10 Of or relating to the Plantagenet house that reigned in England from 1154 to 1485 (7)
12 One of two of Christ’s Apostles of the same name (5)
14 Biblical port, Jaffa today (5)
15 Brahman sage (7)
17 Newt ——–, 50th Speaker of the House of Representatives, 1995-99 (8)
18 Kingston-upon- —-, North Sea port (4)
20 Aram ————-, Soviet Armenian composer known for the opera Spartacus and ‘Sabre Dance’ from Gayane (13)

Quick down
1 Valley through which the Philistines marched to invade Israel (4)
2 Misnamed epithet for Dionysius, a mystical theologian of c 500 (3,10)
3 Woman mentioned in a greeting to Timothy from Paul in Rome (7)
4 Literally, ‘dwarf dog’ in Welsh (5)
5 Aviatrix (1897-1937) who in 1932 was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic (6,7)
6 Line on a map linking places of equal mean temperature (8)
11 People or artefacts of the later or New Stone Age (8)
13 Flood survivor and ancestor of a number of families (7)
16 Members of the sect that split from mainstream Hinduism in the 16th century (5)
19 Shakespearean play, informally: writer of nonsense poetry (4)

Entries to Crossword 0574,
The Catholic Herald, Herald House, Lamb’s Passage, Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8TQ or email
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(Answers in by January 9)

Cryptic answers to No 0571
Across: Denver, 7 Archer, 9 Adrammelech, 10 Minister, 12 Idol, 13 Ahab, 15 Riesling, 17 Merchantman, 19 Brahms, 20 Attlee.
Down: 1 Merari, 2 Prom, 3 Lake Erie, 4 Jethro, 6 Virgin Birth, 8 Credit limit, 11 Tarshish, 14 Hombre, 16 Nantes, 18 Naan.

Quick answers to No 0571
Across: 5 Judges, 7 Altair, 9 Augustinian, 10 Barnabas, 12 Inns, 13 Scam, 15 Drivable, 17 Maginot Line, 19 Fizgig, 20 Canaan.
Down: 1 Judaea, 2 Isis, 3 Darius II, 4 Mignon, 6 Gog and Magog, 8 Trinitarian, 11 Badinage, 14 Cymric, 16 Leeway, 18 Taco.

Winners (0572 Cryptic)
Sue Marsh, Tunbridge Wells, Kent; Dr Gregory Porilo, London SW17.
Winners (0572 Quick)
Mrs Mary Boardman, Chippenham, Wiltshire; P Cates, Leicester.