Cryptic across
5 Point to one of 2 being confused, Mary being uniformly good? (5,4)
8 One of a devilish disposition: it’s Santa – not (8)
9 Hate both sides coming out with bad language (4)
10 Musical groups in church love to tax people in America (6)
11 Syrian city drink’s sickly pop (6)
13 Many banks ruled out cut here in Ulster (6)
15 South American cleric follows Incan business regardless (6)
16 Mount in Deuteronomy – first among nags ever bet on (4)
18 Colin has been made the sailor’s saint (8)
19 Verse’s charm one gets to gauge (9)
Cryptic down
1 Disdainful to stretch out on lounger in the end after fizz (8)
2 Total fabrication, little let out to friends (6)
3 Incantation, a mixture of 13 with one ‘a’ missing (6)
4 Spot for old preacher to caper unbounded (4)
6 Maybe Bartholomew made Hanna late (9)
7 Solo move is tops, like Corinthian Paul converted (9)
12 Don’t get to try places where they touch down? (3,5)
14 Ancestor of Samson’s mother’s ancestor! (6)
15 More knowing, this chap, in battle (6)
17 Doomsayer’s sign captain rejected (4)
Quick across
5 Priest of Nob, killed by Saul for helping David (9)
8 Daughter of Herod Agrippa I (8)
9 Abbreviation for an English county which includes Woodstock and Witney (4)
10 Altruist’s opposite (6)
11 Classic French film noir from Jules Dessin (1956) (6)
13 Frigid (6)
15 Max ——, quantum theory physicist (6)
16 False god; Canaanite deity (4)
18 Man who fell to his death during Paul’s sermon at Troas and, embraced by Paul, returned to life (8)
19 In Greek myth, Amazon queen, the seeking of whose girdle was the ninth labour of Heracles (9)
Quick down
1 Character created by Leslie Charteris and portrayed most famously by Roger Moore (3,5)
2 Charm (6)
3 Brightest star in the Aquila constellation (6)
4 Nymph in love with Narcissus (4)
6 ——— Chant, central tradition of Western plainchant (9)
7 Chinese philosopher of the 6th-5th centuries BC known for his espousal of practical moral values (9)
12 Light white wine from the Lazio area of Italy (8)
14 Pyramid-builder pharaoh of the 26th century BC (6)
15 —— Clark, singer famed for Downtown in 1964… (6)
17 …and Clark’s partner?: mother of Timothy (4)
Entries to Crossword 0595, The Catholic Herald, Herald House, Lamb’s Passage, Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8TQ or email [email protected] (Answers in by June 5)
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